Traffic light nutrition labels slapped on biscuits and crisps DO work and help people eat healthier, review claims Traffic light food labels, like the UK's, found to encourage healthy eating ...

Traffic lights are useful for managing intersections — less so for making food choices. The traffic light diet and related food-labeling systems have gradually become more popular over the past ...

One idea for solving the problem is to Design a traffic light system for food, with green meaning okay to eat always, yellow meaning sometimes, and red meaning almost never.

Traffic light style label systems can counteract the misconception that food or drink claiming to be sugar free is automatically healthy for you, a study on 1,000 Germans has found.

Research shows that health food makes people believe they can eat more. Britain came close to adopting a traffic-light system of compulsory food labelling to grade the health impact of food ...

There are claims that the traffic light system is easier to use The public overwhelmingly support "traffic light" food-labelling rather than the system adopted by much of the food industry, a survey ...

For traffic-light labelling, estimates of changes in energy intake were based on an assumed 10% shift in consumption towards healthier options in four food categories (breakfast cereals, pastries ...

The traffic light system was initially introduced by the UK Government in 2013 but it is currently a voluntary requirement for manufacturers under the under the Food Information Regulation.

According to Phillips, biscuits likely developed as a southern staple food specifically because the flour necessary to make them was (and still is) made from the kind of wheat that’s farmed there.

Britain came close to adopting a traffic-light system of compulsory food labelling to grade the health impact of food products - but, as Jacques Peretti reports, opposition from within the food ...

Video caption, Research shows that health food makes people believe they can eat more. Britain came close to adopting a traffic-light system of compulsory food labelling to grade the health impact ...