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Five graded letters with one enlarged.
Also known as: Nutriscore mark, Five colour nutrition label, Front of pack nutrition grade
Nutri-Score is a front-of-pack label grading a food from A to E on a single scale, the letter that applies enlarged and coloured. It is voluntary, and its adoption differs between countries.
Grades a food on a single A to E scale derived from its nutritional composition per hundred grams.
Contexts: Packaging
Is voluntary and is adopted differently across Europe, several member states having declined it; a product without the mark is not therefore ungraded, only unlabelled.
Contexts: Packaging
Is contested between member states and by parts of the food industry, chiefly over how single foods are scored against composite ones.
The scheme's design and its adoption are both matters of live disagreement between governments, scientific bodies and industry. This record describes what the mark denotes and states that the disagreement exists; it takes no position on whether the scheme is well founded.
Contexts: Packaging
A row of five rounded letters from A to E running left to right, graded from green through to red, with the applicable letter enlarged and raised above the rest.