Australia’s Health Star Rating system is completely broken. It’s supposed to help shoppers pick healthier packaged foods by rating products from ½ to 5 stars. The idea is you only compare similar items within the same category. It penalises energy, saturated fat, sugars and sodium, while rewarding protein, fibre and certain other ingredients. Sounds reasonable in theory… however it’s anything but. It’s deeply flawed and deceptive. Built on outdated low-fat dogma from the old food pyramid era, it
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Australia’s Health Star Rating system is completely broken. It’s supposed to help shoppers pick healthier packaged foods by rating products from ½ to 5 stars. The idea is you only compare similar items within the same category. It penalises energy, saturated fat, sugars and sodium, while rewarding protein, fibre and certain other ingredients. Sounds reasonable in theory… however it’s anything but. It’s deeply flawed and deceptive. Built on outdated low-fat dogma from the old food pyramid era, it
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