In the past week two pieces of information jumped out at me as being quite interesting
firstly! My lecturer told me one can live off potatoes and milk... Potatoes are extremely nutritious, i hate to use the buzz word superfood, but that is what i think they are. Potatoes are amazing they are chocablock full of vitamins (nutrient dense as we dietitians say) and 200g of pasta, rice etc has around 300 kcal and 200g of pots has 80!..... i would like to note my numbers may not be factual but you get what i mean
eat potatoes
they are extremely good for you!
Secondly, i wrote a report on the EU policies of food labelling. Fascinating topic! well that was the aspect i chose. The essay just had to be on food labelling......
Anyways, i just thought i should inform people that its now compulsory for food labelling manufactures in the EU to display front of pack labelling with the RDA (recommended daily amount) in percentage format.
This was voted in over traffic light labeling. Traffic Light Labeling was proven to be easier to understand.. and more effective
guess why the less effective version was voted in.. because the major food companies spent a lot of money to lobby against it
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PS Please google traffic light labelling and RDA as a percent labelling... i feel it would take too long to explain it.. and i think its more the principle of the whole thing that matters.. rather than what they actually are
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xxx over and out
love may
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