the Nutri-score and Yuka guide consumers towards a healthier diet

Apps and logos to help consumers track down junk food. First there is the Yuka application, which allows you to scan your products and guide their choices while shopping. “Sixteen million French people have adopted it, so it is a tool that is part of the consumer’s choice“, recalls the journalist Armelle Ogier. There is also Nutri-score “this label in five colors, five letters“, which gives information on the quality of nutrition of each product. “It is known that food, and certain additives in food can be extremely dangerous for health.“, argues the journalist.

Some agri-food professionals did not take kindly to the Nutri-score created by nutritionist Serge Hercberg. According to him, “everything has been done so that it is not applied in France and is not chosen by Europe“, sums up Armelle Oger. If this were the case, it could become compulsory. And in such a situation, the large groups would be forced to display it. In order not to lose face, they bet on the AOP, making the consumption of certain poorly rated products of the “food patriotism“. In addition, pork butchers are repeatedly suing nitrites because they believe that these additives “do not have the danger” as attributed to them by numerous studies.