Moroccan Study Identifies Nutri-Score As Most Effective Among Five Popular Food Labels
Researchers compared the front-of-pack label with four other standard labels and found Nutri-Score to be the best at helping local consumers make healthier food choices.
May. 13, 2021
A team of Moroccan researchers said consumers could benefit from introducing a front-of-pack label (FOPL) on the food items sold in supermarkets.
According to a newly published study that investigated the efficacy of five FOPLs, Nutri-Score proved to be the best at helping local consumers make healthier food choices.
you think of a poison, people may conjure up images of to be clear, you re not putting it in that same category. there s no doubt people don t exercise as much as they should and there are few elite athletes among us, but it s not the same kind of poison as that? we have three different levels of toxins. we have things where even one part per million can kill you. for instance, cyanide, sarin gas, ricin. we have other things where it takes a little more than that, it s going to be like 30 to 40 parts per million. now like heavy metals like arsenic. and then we have things like vitamin a, which in normal doses is good for you. except in high doses you can die. bottom line, what s the threshold for sugar? what constitutes too much? guess what? we don t know and part of the reason we don t know is because the usda, our department of agriculture, has never set an upper limit. we have a thing called the dietary reference intakes, we have upper and lower limits for
die. bottom line, what s the threshold for sugar? what constitutes too much? guess what? we don t know and part of the reason we don t know is because the usda, our department of agriculture, has never set an upper limit. we have a thing called the dietary reference intakes, we have upper and lower limits for every single nutrient except for one, sugar. i mean, how have you changed your own diet or your family s diet as a result of what you ve learned? we try to keep added sugar down to as, you know, rational a minimum as we possibly can. for instance, my kids know to ask what day of the week it is. on mondays through fridays, their dessert consists of fruit. on saturdays and sundays we ll let them have a scoop of ice cream. so we are by no means food nazis in our house. we are by no means rationing the stuff. but at the same time, we re also making dessert special.
to sugar. but if you get rid of added sugar, all sorts of things get better. your liver gets better, your arteries get better, and your brain can start seeing the signals that tell you that it s time to stop and it reduces your total food consumption. is the problem sugar itself or is it the fact that we are just consuming too much of it? well, there s a molecule within sugar. sugar is two molecules hooked together. glucose, which is necessary for life. if you don t eat glucose, then your body makes it in order to keep the rest of your organs going. the other one called fructose. fru fructose. that s the sweet part of sugar. that s the part we need to get rid of. how do you figure it out if you re consuming too much of the sweet part? unfortunately, the u.s. department of agriculture in their dietary reference intakes gives us lower levels and upper levels for every single