There has been a recommendation put to the government today to put ‘traffic lights’ (red, orange and green) on food to indicate their nutritional value or ‘healthiness’. It has been suggested that if food manufacturers do not do this voluntarily then the industry could be forced to label it. This is a great concept, I am interested in the exact criteria by which they classify foods. I am assuming it will be a combination of total fat, saturated fat, sugars, fiber, vitamins and mineral content etc.
At the same time a ‘fat tax’ has been discarded.
