More Bad News for Smart Choices, Coke and Industry-Led Nutrition Programs
Food companies aren’t faring so well when it comes to positive publicity for their nutrition efforts. A group of doctors just tore up their American Academy of Family Physicians membership cards in protest of the organization’s nutrition-promoting partnership with the Coca-Cola Company. San Francisco attorneys just sent Kellogg a warning over its large front-of-package claims that cereals like Cocoa Krispies “support your child’s immunity.” And the Smart Choices program is pretty much dead. The Smart Choices program was a collaboration between food companies and nutritionists to put a green check mark on the front of packages for foods meeting certain nutrition criteria. The idea was to make it easy for consumers to recognize “Smart Choices,” but the sugary foods selected…
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