EU: The front against the nutriscore widens

The French nutriscore labeling as with the traffic light one adopted in Great Britain risks promoting junk foods with sweeteners instead of sugar and disadvantaging elixir of life such as extra virgin olive oil considered the symbol of the Mediterranean diet, but also specialties such as Grana Padano, Parmigiano Reggiano and Parma ham whose simple recipes certainly cannot be changed. This is what the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini affirms in appreciating the position taken by the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Stefano Patuanelli, at the Question Time in the Chamber on the initiatives aimed at avoiding the adoption of the Nutri-score labeling system, at in order to protect consumers and Made in Italy products. It is in fact - underlines Coldiretti - a misleading, discriminatory and incomplete system that ends up paradoxically excluding from the diet healthy and natural foods that have been present on the tables for centuries to favor artificial ...