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For the UFC-Que Choisir, the "results" of the "review" published Tuesday and for which the consumer protection association has screened thirty or so highly consumed foods and beverages are "deplorable". Only one product in the selection displayed a Nutri-Score, this colorized rating from A to E, which provides information on the nutritional quality of foods.
The association calculated this "score" for the other products. Problem: for the snacks and breakfasts of our children, the products are often too fat, too sweet or too transformed.
No A for the sample cereals
"It's the ultra-processed products that are a problem, as soon as we're on a basic diet, which has no indication of Nutri-Score because they are unprocessed foods, these foods have less of a problem", says nutritionist Arnaud Cocaul at the microphone of Europe 1.
According to the UFC-Que Choisir, among the products in its sample, not one pack of cereals would get the grade A. The "Nesquik whole wheat" have the grade B. The others are awarded a C, a D or a.
Risk of cardiovascular disease
"Some manufacturers are beginning to make efforts by putting whole wheat in some packages, but cereals for children are mostly a disaster," Judge Arnaud Cocaul.
"Because these are products intended to please children, we add fat with a low-end chocolate, we put sugar to flatter more and more the taste and they are also products that can be extremely salty. children who have problems of weight to take even more or develop later metabolic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, "continues the nutritionist.
To taste it, it's not much better. The Pom'potes are well noted, but then it's D or E for Prince cookies or pancakes filled Whaou !.
Optional labeling
"The BN of my childhood have nothing to do with the current BN By dint of being bought, to become multinationals ... We wanted to flatter more and more consumers," deplores the nutritionist.
In its publication, the UFC-Que Choisir emphasizes however that this labeling is "only optional". But the association has started a petition to make it mandatory. "Initially, I was opposed to it, I thought that Nutri-Score gave too much information about packaging and almost dictated the choice of consumers, but it may be useful for some people completely lost in the face of the cacophony Perhaps it must now be made mandatory, "concludes Arnaud Cocaul.