How Do Your Favorite Foods Score?
In order to help inform consumers about the healthiness of food on supermarket shelves, a New England supermarket developed a 0-to-3 star nutritional rating system for foods. According to Political Gateway, the rating system “flunks most of the foods consumers think are good for them.” A spokesperson for the supermarket said: “This is a good, better and best system.”
The supermarket that developed the system, Hannaford Brothers, found that 77 percent of the foods they considered with their system received no stars:
“Hannaford said many of the processed foods advertised as being healthy failed to gain a star because they contained too much sodium, sugar or fat.
Most fruits and vegetables earned the highest rating of three stars along with salmon and high-fiber cereals.”
The system used by Hannaford is more stringent than FDA Guidelines and, not suprisingly, is not applied to its own brand of products.
[Photo from Hannaford]
