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Friday, December 01, 2006

IN THE NEWS - Grocery Store Providing Food Nutritional Ratings

Check this out - the Hannaford Brothers grocery stores have a food rating system called Guiding Stars. It rated the nutritional value of almost all the food and drinks they sell and gave it 1,2 or 3 stars - 3 being best.

The NY Times article says, "Of the 27,000 products that were plugged into Hannaford's formula, 77 percent received no stars..." Read more about it:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2DD113FF935A35752C1A9609C8B63&sec=health&pagewanted=1

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

WHere is there a Hannaford? I have never seen one.