Health Articles - KNOW YOUR FOOD


by MOSES RAPOO - Date: 2009-07-28 - Word Count: 430 Share This!

There are two kinds of shoppers: men and women. Men, you see, shop like trout fishermen: pinpoint casts for clearly identified pry. Men go in and shop, get what they want, then get out. Women, on the other hand, shop like deep-sea trawlers: they scoop everything up and sift through the debris in search of the best bargain. It is a long, multi-layered process.

But, when it comes to shopping for food, it would seem neither technique has worked, since neither gender has much of a clue about what exactly we're buying. A recent study by a global company that focuses on consumer behavior - found that while 49% of us read labels to check their contents when buying something for the first time, over 40% of us have no idea what all the bumph means. So we've spent decades, in fact our whole lives, buying food according to brand allegiance, not necessarily nutritional benefit. That's partly because, as it turns out, reading food labels in their present form will only do half the job. The Department of Health (DOH) admits food labels are "outdated" and full "loopholes". Which is why change is coming to a supermarket near you. If the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Amendment Bill-which is currently winding its way through parliamentary committees after being on the boil for more than five years-is redrafted as planned, it could totally revolutionise how we eat, how we live and even the reasons we die.

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT

What the new legislation will do, is level the playing fields. It's going to shut down the cowboys who put two grams of fibre in their product and say "rich in fibre. Sauces claiming to be "cheese and mushroom" will more correctly be punted as "cheese and mushroom flavoured". A beverage won't be able to advertised as "caffeine free" if it never contained the stuff in the first place. It is all about controlling the claims or promises made by food producers. But there is a flipside, if a foodstuff is chockers with fat and sugar but its manufacture is not making any kind of "low-fat" or "reduced claim, then they don't have to put a nutritional breakdown on the packaging. If the company merely prints bare minimum (name of product, address of manufacture and list of ingredients ) you should think about why they are doing that. Consider avoiding products that omit crucial health information they're probably what some food safety experts call "junkous".

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