Grocers Aim to Tell You How Your Food Measures Up

[Guest guest]

Discussion about a number of different scoring systems that will

summarize many nutritional factors in an algorithm, and rate a food

with a point system, or stars.

While I applaud the attempt to make healthy purchase decisions quicker

for consumers, it's a little sad that consumers almost REQUIRE a system

this simple, because they're not proactive enough to take nutrition all

that seriously. What's even more amazing to me is that the amount of

gak that will be sold with zero or negative stars will still be

overwhelming.

-Blair

(A new CRON adoptee).

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Grocers Aim to Tell You How Your Food Measures Up

By Sally Squires, Washington Post

" If you're like most people trying to do the right thing, you have

probably spent time pondering the nutritional merits of many foods. "

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