GF Foods with Traffic Lights

[philaustin]

Seeing the news this morning about Cadbury and United Biscuits dropping out of the traffic light labeling system where fat, salt and sugar content are coloured green, orange or red to indicate quickly how 'healthy' products are, I wonder if the GF food manufacturers will follow suite? My Glutafin baguettes don'thave traffic lights.

[Mmmm]

I guess most of the GF products will be read for fat and sugar!

I am hoping things like Lucozade and Glucose tablets which I need to raise by blood sugar because I am diabetic don't get traffic lights.

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The coeliac society Australia have removed the gluten free status from cadbury. The label on their chocolates now states "may contain gluten". A very recent change.

[1stgls]

In my opinion we all know that chocolate and biscuits are not the healthiest choices! It is the foodstuffs which claim to be low in fat but use sugar and salt to replace bulk and flavour which need the traffic lights.

Mmmm , it does not matter how many red lights glucose tabs have; you need them for the specific reason of loading your body with life saving glucose. ( I assume you have made this comment a little tongue in cheek !!! but it still raises a valid point -- I know a diabetic woman, who during a hypo, very aggressively, refused a Mars bar as she knew, on one level, it was bad for her)

the Australians have a very tight tolerance for the accepted level for gluten, and I should think in some of the factories which handle different foodstuffs the cross contamination would be impossible to eliminate, and while someone like me can tolerate small amounts some others are amazingly sensitive

[KathrynS_UK]

This is what happens when governments bring out guidelines instead if regulation

[philaustin]

I thought it would be useful to know if the gluten free food that I get on prescription to keep me healthy is going to cause me to die from heart disease caused by the fat and salt it contains, instead of the bowel cancer I might get if I ate ordinary food containing gluten.

What was that old saying.... "Out of the pot, into the fire?" Traffic light labelling seems good to me.

[Penel]

Traffic light labelling would be a very good idea, as a start. One of the biggest cause of health problems is the amount of sugar added to food, it's more likely to give you heart problems than fat or salt, along with diabetes, raised cholesterol and weight gain. "Pure, white and deadly".