Supermarket own brands – like Pams or Countdown’s Own – are delivering nutrition similar to more expensive branded food products from the same stores, according to the study, which crunched five years of data for thousands of packaged food products.D
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‘Only bright spot’: Australian industry calls for rethink on juice Health Star Ratings stance as consumer loyalty grows By Gary Scattergood The Australian beverages industry has expressed hopes that the government will reconsider its current stance on Health Star Ratings (HSR) for no added sugar juices after the sector emerged as the sole soft drinks growth category in the last quarter of 2020.
According to a new report by analysis consultancy GlobalData, the Australian beverage industry as a whole suffered a 4.2% year-on-year drop overall in Q4 2020 with just about all beverage categories showing declines.
Soft drinks in particular saw a significant y-o-y decline of 7.2%, the largest amongst all beverages – with the sole exception of juice, which showed moderate growth of 1.6%.
New orange juice rating lines up with the science, but the stars don t align for some
ABC Business 15/02/2021 By Alex Treloar, Jane McNaughton and Sam Bradbrook
A decision to rate 100 per cent orange juice as less healthy than diet cola has prompted fierce debate among parents, dieticians and juice industry representatives about why the change was needed.
For one parent, Becky Noordink, a mother of three young boys in Western Australia s Great Southern region, the new rating is confusing and potentially misleading.
No stars from mum If you look at the ingredients in a soda drink versus a pure [100 per cent] fruit juice, there are so many manmade chemicals versus a fruit juice that s come off a tree, she said.
New orange juice rating lines up with the science, but the stars don t align for some
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A decision to rate 100 per cent orange juice as less healthy than diet cola has prompted fierce debate among parents, dieticians and juice industry representatives about why the change was needed.
A glass of OJ or a piece of fruit?
Fruit is changed when it is pulverised into juice and is no longer equivalent to whole fresh fruit
Natural sugars in juice (mostly fructose with some sucrose) are absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream than those in whole fruit