Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week agoSo, uhh…where’s the “both sides” to this? “High standards when it comes to food regulations” doesn’t work as an excuse for banning healthier food. That’s absurd.
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Fortification can be used to manipulate some health rating systems. I don’t know what system Canada uses, but Health Star is particularly vulnerable to this. Basically you can make a product that’s high in fat / salt / sugar look better than it is by adding vitamins. So it makes some kind of sense to restrict fortification to certain classes of foods.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Seems like that would be a case for ignoring fortified nutrients in rating foods, not for banning the process entirely.