Can Europe create a food labeling system similar to this?
Can Europe create a food labeling system similar to this?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42020156
Can Canada create a food labeling system similar to this?
It's confusing trying to buy Canadian with all the variations of made in, assembled in, grown in, packaged in, etc. Can we copy the Australian food labeling system, perhaps replacing the kangeroo with a maple leaf? I find this much clearer.
Is this for real, do they really have this? You're winning Australia, don't let this stuff go.
Also don't let go of your "standard drink" stuff on the side of piss. I loved that while I was there. Sure I can guess how much alcohol I've had in the last couple hours by reckoning my 3 or 4 beers had 5%, 6.5%x2, and 8% and this means I'm tipsy. But it's so much easier to understand how drunk I am when it's 1+1.5+1.5+2=6 standard drinks.
It's just a good system despite the many flaws.
They sure do! I'm in NZ and buy more Australia Made stuff than NZ Made because most if the NZ Made was just packaged here but the labelling is unclear.
I'd love to get this labelling for NZ products.
Firstly we need some labels on US food items. Perhaps something like this:
A more informed alternative would be the NOVA classification. Where food is graded on the amount of processing.
Abandoned hope, ye who enter here.
Haha no, but we have NutriScore where sweetened Nestle products get an A, frozen pizza gets a B and cheese gets an F.
...that's not how those work.
If a frozen pizza gets a B that means compared to OTHER frozen pizzas it has a higher nutritional value.
It compares similar products for nutritional value, not the overall "healthiness" of all products compared with each other.
So you can compare a salami pizza with a veggie pizza or a cereal bar with cereals, but not a strawberry yogurt with a chocolate bar, because those are not within the same product group.
Sounds like a simple labeling update would fix the confusion. All labels should say “Rated B compared to other options among FOOD GROUPING.”
Or something. I’m sure it would be doable.
That's legit the first time I hear it, and I searched nutriscore on the internet when I first saw these odd labels, and read some article about it, so likely more research than most people.
Do you have a source for this, because my understanding of the Wikipedia page is that you're not correct, but I'm also aware of my ignorance in this topic.
That sounds like the kind of system the food industry would lobby for to intentionally confuse their customers.
I would love something like this. I would however want it to somehow also portray the nationality of the owner.
The product may be 100% grown and produced in the EU, but be 100% american owned. Maybe I'd rather the product be 90% EU produced, if I could also be sure it's 100% EU owned.
I love our labelling so much in Australia. Nutrition and origin. The only crap one is health star which is misleading. I occasionally buy NZ products and think we should be closer to an economic union like the EU but their labelling is much worse and I worry that they repackage products of different origin which hurts their reputation for the sake of some quick profits.
That mountain has weirdly shaped hiking trails. They don't even connect!
We also had a hard time finding the route. There are narrow paths not shown in the map.
Its a grouse's head. The beak is to the right.
You have to look at it upside down
Goddamn brilliant!