Case: Healthy Eating Labels

Last month the Food Standards Agency introduced 'traffic light colour coded labels' to be printed on the front of food packaging. The three colours (red, amber and green) represent the high, medium and low amounts of saturated fats, sugars and salt in complex foods such as ready meals.



Some supermarkets such as Tesco already label the front of their food packaging showing the percentages of different contents in the food, however the The Food Standards Agency believe colour coding the quantities will make such details clearer and will put the quantities into perspective.

The bottom of this lemonade label shows Tesco's current nutrition content table, the colours used distinguish different contents, not content level:


Click here for more information from the Food Standards Agency

I think this supports our earlier idea that children would understand food nutrition more easily if foods were colour coded.