The packaging for the Percy Pig gummy sweets sold by Marks & Spencer has been branded “genuinely misleading” in a report on food and healthy eating throughout the nation.
The National Food Technique, a government-ordered review led by Leon restaurant creator Henry Dimbleby, explains the nation’s technique to healthy eating as a “slow-motion disaster”, specifying that an extra 1.5 m kids ought to be supplied with free school meals in England.
While Mr Dimbleby applauded the federal government’s just recently launched weight problems technique, that included prohibiting “purchase one get one totally free” offers on certain food and presenting calorie labelling on menus in restaurants, he likewise alerted of the harm “misleading product packaging” can have.
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In its report, the National Food Technique accuses the food market of “clothing itself, and its products in false virtue”, utilizing Percy Pig sweets as an example.
Mr Dimbleby mentioned that while the sweets state on the front
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