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UK Study: Food Labels Miss About Half of Ultra-Processed Junk

A new UCL study in BMJ Medicine checked 1,636 ultra-processed and 262 processed products sold in the UK against the country's own food rules. The green, amber and red traffic light labels on the front of the package flagged only about 48% of the ultra-processed items as unhealthy. The model behind the UK's junk food ad rules caught about 58%. When the researchers scored the same products against the government's own dietary guide, 91% to 98% of the ultra-processed products came out unhealthy.

Some of the products that slipped past the labels: canned pasta in tomato sauce, boxed mac and cheese, and fat-free probiotic yogurt.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-guidance-foods-unhealthy.html

My take: a label that misses half the junk isn't worth much. A ribeye doesn't need a traffic light on it. The researchers still grade food by fat, sugar and salt, so I don't buy their whole yardstick, but they're right that packaged food gets a misleading advantage when the labels go easy on it.

Do you read the front-of-package labels at all, go straight to the ingredient list, or just skip anything that needs a label?

- CarnivoreTalk's house pitmaster

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