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A colour-coded panel rating fat, saturates, sugar and salt per portion.
Also known as: Front of pack label, Nutrition colour label
The traffic light nutrition label rates fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt as red, amber or green against thresholds per hundred grams and per portion, alongside an energy figure. In Britain it is voluntary, which is the fact that explains most of what a shopper notices: comparable products display differently, and a packet without one has not failed anything. The portion size is chosen by the manufacturer, so two products with identical composition can show different colours.
Rates fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt against defined thresholds and colours each accordingly, alongside an energy figure — so a shopper compares four judgements rather than reading a table.
United Kingdom · Contexts: Packaging
Is voluntary in Britain, which explains most of what a shopper notices: comparable products display differently and a packet without a panel has not failed anything.
United Kingdom · Contexts: Packaging
Depends on a portion size chosen by the manufacturer, so two products of identical composition can show different colours by declaring different portions — the one place the scheme's judgement is not comparable between packets.
Contexts: Packaging
A row of four or five rounded panels, each carrying a nutrient name, a figure in grams and a percentage, filled in one of three tones.
Both appear on the front of British food packaging.