Maud Descamps, edited by Laura Laplaud 12:19 pm, December 06, 2021

You may be about to do some shopping in anticipation of Christmas, smoked salmon or foie gras for example, more luxurious products that we know less about and for which we trust the labels more easily.

And yet, we must be vigilant.

The Foodwatch association warns against scams of these food products.

These are the essentials of the end of the year celebrations: smoked salmon, foie gras.

Products specific to the end of year celebrations that we often know less well than the rest of our eating habits.

But beware of scams, warns the Foodwatch association, which warns against these products "full of additives in almost empty packaging". 

Numerous traps

A product that displays a nice tricolor or the words "cooked in France" can be an ultra-processed product in which no ingredient is French.

Another example is the luxury product highlighted on the label, such as truffles, which in fact only represents 0.01% of the finished product.

There are many pitfalls on supermarket shelves.

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Marketing tips that also play on the placement of certain products in stores, warns Camille Dorioz of Foodwatch.

"In the stores, we will put you next to the foie gras department, the gingerbread, the small fig jam, the small onion confit which goes well", he explains.

"You're going to buy it a bit in reflex mode and in fact this onion confit is going to be sold, for example, four times more expensive than the same similar onion confit that you might find in the jam department."

To avoid falling into these traps, some good reflexes should be adopted as always look at the composition on the back of the product rather than relying on what the label puts forward, or compare the prices per liter and per kilo in order to '' avoid unpleasant surprises.