Red for danger...

It seems the government have come to some outline agreement with the leading supermarkets over the question of nutritional food labelling, although the actual details are still to be finalised apparently.  The stated objective is to make it easier for consumers to differentiate between "healthy" and "unhealthy" foods.  I think a big part of the problem is that, whilst nutritionalists might be in agreement, there is no real consensus among shoppers as to what exactly constitutes healthy and unhealthy foods.  As one who has been watching his weight for a good fifty years now, I well know the various approaches - calorie counting, low fat, low carbohydrate, low salt and so on.  So different shoppers will be looking - if indeed they look at all - for different things.  Me?  After 50 years I work on the principle of "a little of what you fancy" - in other words it's how much you eat rather than what you eat that matters.  So I don't think any new labelling system is going to be a lot of help to me.