No fat or no sugar label no guarantee of nutritional quality

According to a new study, terms such as no-fat or no-sugar, low-fat or reduced-salt on food packaging may give consumers a sense of confidence, but these claims rarely reflect the actual nutritional quality of the food. In many cases, foods containing these claims had a worse nutritional profile than those without claims.
If you are a consumer, you assume reduced means a healthier product. But that product only has to be reduced in reference to the original food of the same product for that specific nutrient. An article about the research is published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (News Item University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 15 March 2017).
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