Wits post-doctoral researcher Siphiwe Dlamini argues why South Africa should introduce mandatory “traffic light” labelling for fast foods.
Nutrition-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, remain a serious health issue.
As a result, a host of countries have made it mandatory for fast-food outlets to provide nutritional information. Examples include the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan and United Arab Emirates. A third of the restaurants that provided the nutritional information were international franchises. This suggests that some of the nutritional information had been compiled in response to regulations from other countries where they also operate.
All meal combinations exacerbated the total energy, carbohydrates, sugar, and salt content, and mostly fat. One way to achieve this could be through the use of the “Traffic light labelling” system which has been adopted by countries like Australia and theThe traffic light labelling system uses traffic light colours to indicate whether salt, sugar and fat content are high , medium or low .In the last part of the study, we used the traffic light labelling system and graphically showed that most of the standard burgers and pizzas and medium fried chips were high in fat and salt content.
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