Monday 14 May 2012

Traffic Light Foods

Red stop. Green go. Food producers are being asked to label their foods clearly. Well lets be honest that would be a miracle if that was to happen. Though it seems it would be most appropriate to have one system over all foods so you could compare if that interested you, or if you could be bothered to do such a dull task while quickly popping into your supermarket.

I feel that food labelling obviously has some benefits in theory, but it has so many issues. Not many people pay attention to it (that is not a call to make it bigger on the packaging), it actually often tells you vary little. Many individuals now see salt as being a bad product as well as sugars, well in fact they are important to your diet its all about eating a balanced diet. If you look in the past there was not an obesity problem neither was there food labels, peoples cooked properly for themselves and applied some common sense.

The thing that is quite strange is how packaging labels sugars which are natural as negative however what are the effects of the products and additives that are replacing them, are these worse for you should there be a limit of how much we have of these man-made alternatives. Often i feel that what is naturally occurring tends to be better for you rather than something man has created after all that could have unforeseen flaws in it.

Over i feel food labelling is a good idea if it was constant across all brands. Though at the end of the day if your comparing the salt amount in you ready meals i hardly doubt you should be concentrating on the difference between the two products and rather should find some natural products and cook for yourself at  least that way you can add as little or as much of these ingredients.

Hope you enjoyed reading

Josh

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