Food Labels & Diabetes - new petition!

[bamba]

Per portion sugar is next to useless when whatever it is is made of highly refined flour, but the emphasis is so much on 'sugar tax' and 'sugar is bad' these days that carbs are getting let off scot free 😡

It also stops you from finding out that they think half a muffin is a 'portion'

 

[PhoebeC]

I was saying this the other day about chocolate. Sell things like this, crisps, chocolate in the portion size! why would I think one kit kat is two portions. Drives me made. Or 4 blocks of a 6 block bar!
I know lets eat half a pack of crisps, said no on ever!

 

[mikeyB]

Well, what I would like to know what the portion size of Pringles is.

None, is my guess, but I would love to know what their opinion is🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I was saying this the other day about chocolate. Sell things like this, crisps, chocolate in the portion size! why would I think one kit kat is two portions. Drives me made. Or 4 blocks of a 6 block bar!
I know lets eat half a pack of crisps, said no on ever!

Soft drinks are just the same. It's almost as if stupidly small portion sizes are simply a cynical way of getting around food labelling requirements. Thank goodness we know that the food industry only has our health and best interests at heart!

 

[Beck S]

The stupid thing is, there's plenty of space on that brownie packet to put the weight in, but they just haven't. I thought that was required by law anyway. Maybe not.

Soft drinks are just the same. It's almost as if stupidly small portion sizes are simply a cynical way of getting around food labelling requirements. Thank goodness we know that the food industry only has our health and best interests at heart!

I never actually realised until recently that a 500ml bottle of fizzy is classed as 2 portions. That makes a can about 1.25 portions. Who's going to drink most of a can but leave a bit at the bottom until later?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I am convinced the 380ml bottles used to say ‘contains 2 servings’. But now they say it is only one.

If my recollection is right, I’d put money on the change happening when they reduced the sugar content as the serving size probably snuck under the labelling guidance 🙄

Of course now I need half a bottle rather than a few swigs to get 15g of carbs to treat a hypo.

 

[Radders]

I have noticed that the dilution instructions for the sugary squash my other half sometimes buys render the drink extremely weak and tasteless. I think this is a cynical way of reducing the sugar content per serving.

 

[Robin]

The stupid thing is, there's plenty of space on that brownie packet to put the weight in, but they just haven't. I thought that was required by law anyway. Maybe not.

Funnily enough since my email, when I went to the garden centre again, they seemed to have stopped selling the entire range of own brand brownie and other bars. Perhaps they've realised they should have the weight on them.

As a footnote to the comments on portion size, I am in the US at the moment. We bought a pack of 6 mini donuts for the whole family of 4 to share. One donut was 10 carbs. When I looked at the nutritional info on the back, it said 'portion size, one pack' That's 60 carbs! ( can't remember the calories, but must have been a fair few)

 

[Radders]

Bought a carton of Ribena yesterday as I was low and unable to find the dextrosol in my handbag. A single carton used to be nearly 30g sugar so I was only expecting to drink half of it. Good job I put my specs on and checked as it was only 11.8g. Thankfully it was enough to get me out of hypoland.

 

[Beck S]

This is the main issue with the change towards lower sugar. It's great and I'm all for it, but it means we have to be more vigilant.