Geoffrey Branger 10:09 a.m., December 07, 2022, amended at 10:09 a.m., December 07, 2022
The end-of-year meals are fast approaching, but before you go shopping, be careful!
The NGO Foodwatch alerts on 10 star products for Christmas tables.
Some brands are ready to do anything to sell as much as possible, even if it means harming consumers on the quality or quantity of the products.
What kinds of practices should you be wary of?
Europe 1 takes stock.
Some brands play on the packaging to inflate prices, it's called shrinkflation, translate masked inflation.
What does that mean ?
The quantity or size of the products decreases, but the price remains unchanged or even increases.
Foodwatch, a non-profit organization that fights for safe, healthy and affordable food, has listed several affected products.
"Foodwatch has pinned Nestlé's signature large chocolate log, its packaging contains 80% of empty space, it's huge," Audrey Morice, campaign manager at Foodwatch, told Europe 1.
"So an oversized packaging for a product that is often essential for dessert."
Deceptive content
Another example of this practice is Lindt's Pyrenean chocolates.
The box of 30 now only contains 24, while the price per kilo has increased by 18%.
And there are also products whose packaging oversells the recipes... "The turkey roast stuffed with morels by Maître Coq has generous morels on the festive packaging", explains the Foodwatch specialist.
"And in fact behind the packaging, the product only contains 0.9% morels, it's very little and it's very deceptive."
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Similarly, the "sustainable fishing" label on Carrefour lumpfish roe may suggest that it is a healthy product.
The only problem ?
It contains five additives, including a potentially carcinogenic dye.