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US nutritional info panels are far easier to tune out, but many people still find them useful. Better to give people information should they want to put extra t
by standardUser 2y ago
US nutritional info panels are far easier to tune out, but many people still find them useful. Better to give people information should they want to put extra thought into their diet as opposed to keeping things obscured and making the task that much more difficult. The Wiki article says 10% of people take the labels into consideration. If 5-10 million Mexican families eat healthier diets at the cost of simple labels covering some marketing materials, that seems like a fantastic deal for consumers.
- benatkin 2y agoIt's good to be able to easily access facts about food, yes. It's the warnings that I think are simply OK, they don't help much nor hurt much. For instance, most people don't need to worry about their dietary sodium, and I think in the US a lot of people could discover tasty food like soups and stir fries and curries that are high in salt and moderate their animal product consumption. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/dietary-salt-and-blood-pressure-a-complex-connection https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/dietary-salt-and... Edit: looking in that article it's good to avoid too much sodium, but a lot of people don't notice that how salty food tastes isn't always directly related to how much sodium is being consumed. Sodium deep inside of food isn't going to be as easy to taste as salt on the surface.