Health Star Rating system shake-up proposes penalising cereals that contain added sugars

Sugary cereals like Nutri-Grain and Milo would be the biggest losers in a shake-up to the Federal Government's Health Star Rating system, proposed by the nation's largest consumer advocacy group.

When it applied the alternative algorithm to more than a dozen products, it found the Health Star Ratings of cereals like Nutri-Grain, Uncle Toby's Plus Protein and Milo dropped from four out of five stars to just one-and-a-half stars.

Key points:

• The Health Star Rating system gives packaged and processed foods a rating of up to five stars
• The rating takes into account the "positive nutrients" and "risk nutrients" foods comprise
• Currently, only 30 per cent of food products in Australia have Health Star Ratings
• CHOICE wants the algorithm used to score food products changed, to penalise "added sugars" that are not naturally found in foods.

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Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-25/health-star-rating-system-shake-up/11242672?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=%5bspecialist_sfmc_27_06_19_health%5d%3a125&user_id=ac7ae9fa04ff641a054b9fb93a037d4a12a39dce59a72d8022005f6e1e05778f&WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Email%7c%5bspecialist_sfmc_27_06_19_health%5d%7c125story_4_more, viewed 28 June 2019