Food Labels: Brits Vote to “Keep It Simple”

In a recent poll, 80% of consumers (along with the British Medical Association) preferred a simple “stop light” food label to a long list of percentage figures of recommended daily amounts. The stop light icon simply categorizes food as containing low (green), medium (yellow), or high (red) levels of the following ingredients:

  • Fat
  • Saturated Fats
  • Sugar
  • Salt

The guideline daily amounts (GDA – the rough equivalent of America’s RDA system) supporters argue that the stop light is an oversimplification, and does not effectively convey all the important nutritional value of food.

What do you think? Would you like to see this sort of labeling in the US?

This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.


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