Labels & law
Reading an EU food label in ninety seconds
Per-100 g is the comparison tool, the ingredient list is sorted by weight, and three lines tell you most of what the front of the pack won't.
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Labels & law
What the small print on an EU package is legally allowed to say, and what it quietly cannot.
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Labels & law
“Light” is a percentage, not a promise
In EU law, light means the same as reduced: thirty per cent less of something than a comparable product. Thirty per cent less than what is the interesting part.
Labels & law
What “source of” and “high in” are legally allowed to mean
Those two phrases are not marketing language. They are defined in EU law, to the gram, and the definitions are lower than shoppers assume.