Saw
this tweet from the CFIA and so I decided to take a supermarket field trip and found plenty of what I would describe as deceptive food labels.
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5 teaspoons of sugar per bar along with 210 calories |
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31% more sugar cup per cup than Froot Loops |
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By weight, this product is 48% sugar |
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Cookie for cookie more than double the sugar of an Oreo |
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Drop for drop more sugar and calories than Coca-Cola |
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With 2.75tsp of sugar per "Twist", contains the sugar of 2.3 actual Twizzlers |
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Each popsicle contains the sodium found in 93/100ths of one single grain of table salt (along with 2 teaspoons of sugar) |
But here's the problem, none of the products' labels above break any Canadian packaging laws, and if the labelling laws themselves explicitly permit deceptive labels, consumers don't stand a chance.
Why have a system where the onus is on the consumer to study the products' nutrition fact panels to determine if their healthy front of package claims are supported?