We should remove calories from food labels. There needs to be more of a focus on ingredients than calories.
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I like how you're thinking. 🤔
How about we also remove like 90% of the ingredients? At least in American foods 😅
If the ingredient list on peanut butter only reads, "peanuts", people will actually read it.
There's a Swedish cracker brand, Wasa, that is sold in America, and it actually only has like 3-4 ingredients in it, which is great!
I couldn't agree more!
If it has a lot of ingredients and most of them are hieroglyphics, I'm avoiding it most of the time.
Here's what I think would happen if this was done:
1. Shift from Quantity to Quality
People would be more likely to assess food based on what's in it rather than how much energy it has.
2. Highly-processed food loses some of its pull.
No more "low calorie" or "guilt-free" language on junk food.
3. Unintended Consequences
- Could increase overconsumption of food
- Could trigger new forms of eating disorders
- Junk food companies would find ways to obfuscate bad ingredients or make them look healthier than they are (i. e. natural flavors)
Since I've never looked at calories (even when I cut a TON of weight for wrestling), I don't see much use in them.
Removing them would do more good than bad IMO, but a shift like that would require more education.
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