The nutrition labeling system for food products – yes or no?

In the Science of the Medical University of Warsaw published a column by Assoc. Prof. Mariusz Panczyk on labeling products with nutritional value.

For several months you can see five-color nutrition labels on selected food products sold in Poland and other EU countries. This is the Nutri-Score tagging system developed in France in 2017. “Although this type of label is intended to promote good eating habits by indicating which products are characterized by high nutritional value, this objective is not met in practice,” says Assoc. Prof. Mariusz Panczyk, PhD from the Faculty of Health Sciences, one of the authors of the report on Nutri-Score food labeling.

All text on website: https://www.wum.edu.pl/en/node/17604

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