Are food labels lying to us to make
food more appealing? Do you rely on food labels to make healthy choices for
your family? This is a question that influences people’s health to what they
buy. Packaging is the outer layer of a product that gives the image of a
healthy product. The nutrition facts are the actual labels giving the amount of
ingredients in each product. Packaging on food is crucial to most consumers’
choice in buying the product. Parents like the comfort of knowing that a
product is “safe” or “healthy” for their family. In addition, our society has
turned more health conscious about what they eat for example if it’s organic or
not. So out of all the advertisements and labels which ones are not telling the
truth?
In the article “5 False Food Claims” it
gives us a run down on some of the most popular advertisements we see with
food. “Made with real fruit” (5 False Food Claims p.1) is a quote we see on
everyday “health” packages. Although a product may say it is made with real
fruit it can be quite deceiving. There actually is no regulation over if the
product can say its “made with real fruit” so companies can put it on the
package even if its not true. For example Kellogg’s Cereal bars say that are
made with a real-fruit-filling, which is really a puree concentrate that is
mainly sugar.
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| By: Kellogs |
Yet there is nothing from stopping them to say it is “real fruit”.
The little things like this are what matter in having a healthy balanced diet.
How do we
prevent this?
-Never
substitute fruit, always try eating the real thing
-Look on the
actual ingredients and see if sugar is towards the top of the list (if so, it
could be one if the most prominent ingredients)
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| By: General Mills |
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| By: Kellogs |
How to prevent this?:
-Simply look on the back nutrition label
-Look at the ingredient listing to see if sugar is in the top four ingredients
I love the way your formatting is working for this. I think the Problem-solution structure is working really well and the "points to remember" at the end are very effective, especially for your audience!
ReplyDeleteHowever, think carefully about how you address your audience. Your opening two questions are great, but then a bit down in the paragraph you make a claim about what "parents like." This means you're making assertions for your audience. In this case, because you actually have a very specific audience, maybe using "you" would make more sense since you're actually trying to talk with them. Or even, "we" might work.