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Food: Nutri-Score changes its rating
This is one of the many changes implemented on January 1: the Nutri-score ratings of foods are changing. Too fatty, too sweet, too salty… The criteria for awarding these letters are tightening. – (France 2)
This is one of the many changes implemented on January 1: the Nutri-score ratings of foods are changing. Too fatty, too sweet, too salty… The criteria for awarding these letters are tightening.
Nutri-Score entered consumers’ lives six years ago. It is used to assess the nutritional quality of foods, and is viewed, with more or less interest, by customers. Sugar, like salt, will be penalized more in the future. The Nutri-score is evolving to better take into account nutritional recommendations.
Certain penalized products will no longer display their Nutri-Score
On the decline: red meat, sodas and several types of milk, plant-based or not. “Some of these drinks, flavored milks for example, can contain up to 10 g of sugar, close to that of a soda. The new calculation method allows them to be penalized. They will go from B to C, D or E depending on their sugar content”explains Serge Hercberg, nutritionist and founder of Nutri-Score. The notes of certain vegetable oils, cereals complete or even the Pisces fat go increase. Faced with this evolution, several industrial including the products are downgraded have decided to no longer display the Nutri-Score, which remains optional due to lack of European consensus.
