According to experts, the nutrition labelling system for food packets recommended by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) will not only fail to enable consumers to make healthy choices but also mislead them about their nutritional value.<\/span><\/p>\n FSSAI has recently released<\/span> Draft Regulations for a Front of Package Labeling(FoPL) system.<\/b><\/p>\n This system proposes a <\/span>health star rating for packaged foods<\/b>. Under this, packaged food will be assigned a certain number of stars based on \u201cpositive\u201d components (fiber, protein, fruit, vegetable, nut and legume content) balanced against other components (energy, sugars, sodium, and saturated fat).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Firstly<\/b>, this proposed system is divorced from science as the presence of high quantities of sugar can\u2019t be offset by the so-called positive ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly, <\/b>this system defeats the seven-year-long fight for safeguarding consumer interests and helping them make informed decisions to exercise their right to healthy choices.<\/span><\/p>\n Experts have favoured the warning label system<\/strong> such as a black-and-white stop symbol used in Chile<\/strong> or the red warning symbol in Israel<\/strong> for each of the three ingredients \u2014 salt, sugar and fat.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cFSSAI\u2019s star ratings for food products may mislead consumers: experts\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 5th May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to experts, the nutrition labelling system for food packets recommended by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) will not only fail to enable consumers to make healthy choices but also mislead them about their nutritional value. Background FSSAI has recently released Draft Regulations for a Front of Package… Continue reading FSSAI\u2019s star ratings for food products may mislead consumers: experts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-182881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704869088},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Background<\/b><\/h5>\n
Why are experts criticizing health star ratings for food products?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is an alternative to the star rating system suggested by experts?<\/b><\/h5>\n