Thursday 29 September 2022 11:05 PM Obesity experts want food labels that tell you to walk 15 minutes to burn off a ... trends now
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Junk food labels should tell shoppers how much exercise is needed to stop cakes, biscuits and crisps making them fat, experts say.
It would see a 200-calorie item slapped with the warning it would take a 30-minute walk to burn off.
Obesity-fighting experts say the information would be much simpler to understand than current traffic light stickers.
Therefore, it would be more likely to discourage people from buying foods bad for their waistline, they believe.
Loughborough University researchers tested the concept, known as physical activity calorie equivalent or PACE, on 2,668 consumers.
Overall, people preferred the existing red, yellow, green labels which warn if an item is high in salt, sugar or fat.
The food warning label of the future? Scientists want to tell consumers how much exercise they'll need to do to burn off the calories from their favourite snacks
In the UK, this would replace the familiar traffic light system that warns Britons of foods containing higher amounts of fat, sugar and salt
A total of 43 per cent claimed the traffic light system was better, compared to 27 per cent who opted for PACE.
Yet they
