Asda's poor nutrition labeling
Sep. 28th, 2017 07:37 pmA few months ago I complained about Asda's labeling of their canned fruit giving nutrition information that excluded the juice that the pieces of fruit were in. This evening I came across a couple more inadequate nutrition labels and was unsurprised to discover that they too were branded Asda: oven fries with no information by post-baked weight and a selection of twelve pieces of Indian food with no per-piece information apart from for only one of the kinds. I do not think that they are trying to deceive. Instead, I suspect that they are just too lazy or ignorant to label helpfully.
Certainly it is usual for other brands' labeling to not be wholly convenient but they do usually provide enough information that one can calculate what one wants to know: divide by number of identical pieces, adjust for some factor based on mass loss in baking, etc. I do not mind having to think about the information that they choose to provide but I like there to at least be enough of it without having to weigh individual kinds of item both pre- and post-baking and suchlike.
Certainly it is usual for other brands' labeling to not be wholly convenient but they do usually provide enough information that one can calculate what one wants to know: divide by number of identical pieces, adjust for some factor based on mass loss in baking, etc. I do not mind having to think about the information that they choose to provide but I like there to at least be enough of it without having to weigh individual kinds of item both pre- and post-baking and suchlike.