89 Percent Of Children's Food Products Provide Poor Nutritional Quality, Study Finds

Monday, July 14, 2008 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a new study. Researchers used US guidelines to review 367 products. 70 percent of the products had higher than recommended sugar levels, 23 percent had high fat levels and 17 percent had high salt levels. But 62 percent of them still make health claims on the packaging.

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