[SALFORD RED]

Some 'ignore food label schemes'

Food labelling could end up being ignored by a large number of shoppers, experts suggest.

A "significant" proportion did not take them into account when buying treats such as cakes, show early results from a Food Standards Agency-funded study.

Researchers said this was because shoppers knew they were bad for them but wanted to "indulge" themselves.

They also found a trend for ignoring them when buying supposedly basic essentials such as flour and butter.

Those surveyed said this was because these ingredients were needed and could not be avoided.

Full article..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7641476.stm


Do you ignore labelling on food ? I know i do. I never even read them.

I buy whatever i want to buy, if i want a pint of milk i buy a pint of milk,
i dont look if it's half fat, low fat, no fat, pasturised or whatever, it's a pint
of milk to me and i drink it.

We've never bought into all this government health warnings crap.
Too much salt, not enough salt, too much of this not enough of that.

We eat what we want, when we want, basically eat a balanced diet but don't go out our way to to make it balanced.

Don't know if we are one hell of a "lucky" family, but none of us are overweight, all fit and healthy, hardly ever go to the doctors and if ever we go for health check ups we always get told " yep, no problems, see you in 6 months".

So are all the warnings and guidelines that people are given just a load of rubbish ?

I'm betting that there will be a difference of opinions here, older members will agree and remember when we ate lumps of coal and anything else we wanted with no harm done, younger members that go out and buy bottles of coke and tons of chocolate, takeaways, junk food that sort of agree, and the 20s - 30s
who check all the labels, go out their way to eat healthy, take regular vitamins/suppliments and go by all the government guidelines.

And i'm willing to bet that it is Americans that take more vitamins/iron/oils/suppliments etc than any other nation. ( god knows why ).

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[jerrakos]

i don't check food labels
i eat/drink whatever i want
i love my food

[red lady]

calories,sugar and salt content thats about it really..never really bother checking labels.maybe i should start.

[RedForceRising]

I don't have any food allergies, so I ignore the labels in general, but I make sure they are not made in China.

There are so many food scandals happening in China that are fatal. It is ridiculous. There is zero quality inspections there and corruption is rife, so a lot of products don't get inspected. i'm not sure if you have heard about it in Europe, but there was a big milk contamination and everything from oreos to Magnum ice cream is effected.

So the one thing I make sure not to do is buy food stuff from China.

[RyanGiggs]

I don't usually, because I just buy the stuff that I have had before. So I know the sugar,salt, etc.

[Red Devil]

I always check the sell by date, I always check the contents. I do not add salt to meals and look for salt and sugar content on items. I like the odd pork pie but if you check all the labels the content of actual pork can vary by as much as 20%. Some are as low as 19%, highest, in a supermarket is about 27%.

[reddevil11]

Yep i sure do check all labels.

i have to be careful with somethings that my son eats but i still eat what i want when i want

I've just had a nice big ceam cake the label on that isnt to good lol

[Ritesh MU]

I always check all food labels and expiry date as well.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by reddevil11

Yep i sure do check all labels.

i have to be careful with somethings that my son eats but i still eat what i want when i want

I've just had a nice big ceam cake the label on that isnt to good lol

I couldn't agree more, bloody taste all papery!!!

[Ajant]

All I do is look for expiry dates and if I think something has peanuts in, I will check for that. (I am allergic to them... )