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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2010-03-12 08:42 am

Adopting traffic lights would make 75 per cent of breakfast cereals carry red warning labels

A scheme to give clearer health guidelines on foods (red = unhealthy, amber = middling, green = healthy) has been set back yet again after major political pressure from food manufacturers.

Just in case you want to know, the only breakfast cereals I'm aware of that don't contain added sugar are Grape Nuts, Dorset Cereals muesli and Shredded Wheat.  Almost all other brands of muesli now contain either sugar or crystallised fruit (which appear to be a handy way of adding sugar without showing it on the ingredients list).

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