JRC: What is the nutritional quality of the food we buy in Europe’s supermarkets?
A new JRC study delivers a first large-scale overview of the nutritional quality of packaged foods across 21 European countries. The findings are instrumental for taking action to reformulate foods and beverages to healthier profiles.
The nutrient content displayed on labels of packaged food shows large differences across and within European countries and food categories, a new analytical JRC overview shows. Efforts by the industry to improve the nutrient composition of foods are ongoing. However, sometimes improvement in one nutrient – like sugars, salt, fat or fibre – is offset by a worsening of another.