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When Grocery Stores Tell You What Foods Are Healthy

When Grocery Stores Tell You What Foods Are Healthy

While the US government is pondering a mandatory nutritional rating system that has to be displayed on foods, supermarkets are one step ahead: they now have their offerings scored by rating companies and prominently display the results on the shelves.

Supermarket Overkill

Supermarket Overkill

When we today enter a supermarket, we are bombarded with choices: dozens of brands of what essentially is the same product beg for our attention and try to convince us that they are superior to the other. Are they really? And does this much choice help us?