FSA wants smaller Coke cans
Posted by Alan | Under Healthy Eating Wednesday Mar 31, 2010
Drinks that have sugar as an ingredient such as soda should be marketed in cans that contain 250ml alongside the traditional 300ml can the Food Standards Agency announced in a recommendation.
According to the agency, people should also reduce their intake of saturated fats found in chocolate, cakes, sweets, and biscuits by five to ten percent.
The agency announced the recommendations after a consultation but companies are not legally bound to follow the recommendations.
Head of Nutrition at the FSA, Dr. Clair Baynton, stated that food businesses consistently look over their processes and ingredients along with their portion sizes and that the aim of the recommendations is to encourage the companies to think about how they could help contribute to the public by reducing saturated fat which have been linked to heart disease.
Baynton continued to say that the idea is not to tell people how to eat, but to make it simpler for people to choose healthy food items or at least healthier portion sizes.
Julian Hunt from the Food and Drink Federation stated that UK food producers are proud of how far they have come by changing the recipes of popular foods so that they taste the same but contain less calories, saturated fat, and fat.
Hunt added that their members have been tackling the unique challenge of producing healthier foods for years and are ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to altering old favourites and producing new products that are healthy and tasty.
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