Green chicken, red pork

How healthy is my food? The answer could be in the future, the Nutri-Score. The consumer organization Foodwatch has calculated at 24 in the summer popular food, as they would be cut off. The result shows that the part within the same product group large differences exist.

Especially great was the span width in the case of grilled meat: While marinated chicken medallion skewers from Aldi a green rating received, cuts, greasy-salty pork-BBQ torches with the worst Note-on – a-red E.

Even with vegan Burger Patties difference in the rating. Beyond Meat was awarded, among other things, due to its many calories, only a yellow C. of The Incredible Burger from Nestlé, however, cut with a green A, the vegan mill fillets type chicken of Rügenwalder mill got a light green B.

The detailed results of the sauces over ice cream to lemonade you will find in the photo section:

The Nutri-Score comes from French researchers, he evaluated the food on a scale of a (green, on the healthiest ) to E (red, at the most unhealthy). In the evaluation, only the content does not flow to tend to be unfavorable components, such as saturated fat, sugar or salt. It is also taken into account, as many healthy ingredients and ingredients are in the food including fiber, proteins, fruits or vegetables to fall.

France and Belgium use the Nutri-Score already, Spain and Switzerland to adopt it also. In Germany, the Federal Ministry of agriculture and food under Julia Klöckner (CDU) taken so far, the introduction of a traffic light system. The Federal government has committed itself in the coalition agreement to bring to the summer nutrition labelling on the way.

Currently an EU regulation merely imposes an obligation on the packaging of the food the calorie content, fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt must be stated. Food watch has been for a Long time for the introduction of an additional food traffic light. The goal is to inform consumers about the nutritional value of different foods.