Your food may soon come with warnings. The FDA plans to propose labeling this fall for the front of food and drink packages to address exploding obesity rates by flagging products containing high levels of sodium, saturated fat or added sugars. - ThreadSky

washingtonpost.com • 187 days ago

Your food may soon come with warnings.

The FDA plans to propose labeling this fall for the front of food and drink packages to address exploding obesity rates by flagging products containing high levels of sodium, saturated fat or added sugars.

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rrrvvvwww.bsky.social•187 days ago

How about the companies change their ingredients instead.

weebfodido.bsky.social•187 days ago

The decision actually influences brands to change their formulas, it's a good thing overall, we have it in Brasil and some products lowered their added sugar to avoid the label

down10.bsky.social•187 days ago

If only people here knew how to read

spinny.bsky.social•187 days ago

woof

khaiserkf.bsky.social•187 days ago

Good.

tyznik.com•187 days ago

They have these in Mexico but they seem to be on practically everything which means they just fade into the background. I can't imagine they've had an impact on people's choices.

drcindyconaway.bsky.social•187 days ago

When you order from Instacart you can sort by sugar-free and gluten-free products, but not low salt ones, which are what we need.

richwisz.bsky.social•187 days ago

Good. Most "food" isn't food it's over processed calories in a box

appa69.bsky.social•187 days ago

Pretty soon, soylent green.

fagundeslff.bsky.social•187 days ago

I don't know if it was inspired by the change that occurred in Brazil by ANVISA. Where since October 2020, packaging must present identification at the top.

stillwellgray.ca•187 days ago

Me: the issue can't possibly be that people don't know these foods are bad

Also me: remembers when America "discovered" that Nutella is not a health food

l-aurian.bsky.social•187 days ago

To be fair, some things can seem healthy even if they’re not, especially for people who were never taught a lot about nutrition. Obviously a candy bar is bad but things like sweetened applesauce, some flavored yogurts, flavored oatmeal etc all have a ton of sugar

stillwellgray.ca•187 days ago

okay but chocolate spread, that has a nutrition label on it already

l-aurian.bsky.social•187 days ago

Yeah I’m not arguing about chocolate spread. Of course that’s unhealthy. I’m saying there are things that are marketed as healthy that aren’t. They have nutritional labels but most people don’t know the max sugar etc they should eat in a day. So having a label that flags it as unhealthy is good.

stillwellgray.ca•187 days ago

okay i was talking about chocolate spread.

shoishto.bsky.social•187 days ago

Chocolate spread

CHOCOLATE SPREAD!!!!!

C H O C O L A T E S P R E A D ! ! ! ! !

kimthornton.bsky.social•187 days ago

We’ve been in France and they had nutrition ratings on snack foods.

jumpifbelow.bsky.social•187 days ago

To be fair, those "Nutri-Score" labels aren't mandatory, only the companies willing to use them can. So a lot of unhealthy foods are not labelled at all, but if you mind the labels, then you flag them as de facto unhealthy.

kimthornton.bsky.social•187 days ago

Good to know. Luckily there wasn't much I was inclined to buy, except for a small bag of chips.

fobbio.bsky.social•187 days ago

A strategic move by the food producers to get out in front of anticipated litigation claiming they sold an unsafe product. No real heroes in this scenario. Of course nobody’s forcing people to pig out on this stuff but the plaintiffs bar is very creative in “tortifying” consensual behavior.

phillilla.bsky.social•187 days ago

Given how bad obesity levels are in the US (and they are pretty bad here in UK) I would have thought this is smart move...

broholics.com•187 days ago

Reminds me of when I was in South Florida and the Doritos had these warnings on them. I assume the warnings are for sodium, calories, and saturated fat, but I never looked it up.

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