The Nutri-Score System in France - can you trust it?

The Nutri-Score system in France! They’ve got it all wrong.

Here’s why.…

(C) Amanda King

As demonstrated by my Fabulous assistant. We have a range of breakfast cereals. Full of preservative, colours, flavour enhancers and more - boasting fortification with synthetic vitamins that your body cannot use. Full of refined sugars and empty carbohydrates - these are responsible for lowered concentration in school including ADHD symptoms, anti-social behaviour, hormonal problems, gut issues for everyone.. the list goes on.…

These breakfast foods have a nutri-score of A.

Due to the synthetic vitamins included, plus the fact that cereals/grains are still counted as healthy and the confusion around added sugar and seed oils. Did you know that the vitamins in these cereals are synthetic, mostly the body cannot use them and some can cause harm to certain people? They also use up the vitamins you do have stored in your body, just to be processed… they are anti-nutrient. It’s a lose-lose for you in the end.

Moving to our next product… I present to you.. cheap, ultra processed white bread. Bleached, full of chemicals and artificial ingredients! It has a nutri score of… drum roll please… you guessed it, A. (Seriously?)

Here is UHT milk in a plastic carton, with the best part taken out (the cream/fat with its fat soluble vitamins and healthy energy source!). I guess the fact that it’s fortified (there is a loaded word) with vitamins means it’s healthy right? Sadly ,the vitamins are synthetic and mostly not bioavailable… they are no use to you.

and to the butter… with a nutri score of D.

Fat is unhealthy and ‘clogs’ your arteries up, right? Butter is full of healthy saturated fats which support your brain, your nervous system, your immune system and your bones.

The salad is an interesting one. With a nutri score of B. But it’s full of pasta and is covered in toxic vegetable oil. This is a case of giving with one hand and taking away with the other. The vitamins in here are delivered to your body in the forms that nature intended, with the co-factors present (we are designed to eat the foods that grow from this earth, they are perfectly designed to feed us and contain everything needed to process and convert vitamins into their usable forms). So that’s great, more veggies and healthy proteins from chicken and egg are good.

Having cheap white pasta with that means that some of those vitamins will be used to process the pasta which is an anti nutrient. The toxic oils will cause cellular damage in the body that will need to be cleaned up, more vitamins used. The net effect, hard to pin down but it’s a mixed bag. I wouldn’t put that down as a B and I wouldn’t eat this, it’s not healthy.

It’s so important to raise awareness on these issues because as consumers we are led to believe that junk food is healthy and healthy food is junk due to the inaccuracies of grading systems like this.