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If you think #Nutriscore is bad, prepare for worse.
They've now decided that the scores are too benign for red #meat 🥩 - therefore, the algorithms will be tweaked so that this inconvenience is out of the way.
This is not science. This is a crusade.
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They've now decided that the scores are too benign for red #meat 🥩 - therefore, the algorithms will be tweaked so that this inconvenience is out of the way.
This is not science. This is a crusade.
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There are many issues with #Nutriscore. Here are some examples that illustrate its often nonsensical outcomes (note that the designers already tweaked the score of olive oil from D to C to accommodate criticism from Mediterranean countries)
But given that the entire thing seems designed to give the prevailing dogma a boost, based on the magic of #nutritionism (calories! fibre! saturated fat!), some remained rather unhappy with the fact that red meat is often scoring A/B. Imagine, suggesting that meat's good for you!
"Nutritionism - or nutritional reductionism - is characterised by a reductive focus on the nutrient composition of foods as the means for understanding their healthfulness, as well as by reductive interpretation of the role of these nutrients in bodily health." (p2) #Nutritionism
👇 p13 #Nutritionism
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
"Nutritional gaze" - seeing food primarily as a collection of nutrients & in terms of a set of standardised nutritional concepts & categories so that it overwhelms other ways of seeing & encountering foods. (pp12-13) #Nutritionism
