After Peru started putting warning labels on unhealthy foods, the amount of bad fat in popular foods went down a bit, but the sugar content stayed about the same.

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Reformulation of Top-Selling Processed and Ultra-Processed Foods and Beverages in the Peruvian Food Supply after Front-of-Package Warning Label Policy

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2022 Dec 27

After Peru put warning labels on unhealthy food packages, companies changed some foods to have less saturated fat — and the study proves it. But sugar levels in foods didn’t change much, which is exactly what the claim says.

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Reformulation of Top-Selling Processed and Ultra-Processed Foods and Beverages in the Peruvian Food Supply after Front-of-Package Warning Label Policy

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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20010424

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After Peru started putting warning labels on unhealthy foods, fewer of the most popular foods ended up with those labels—especially ones saying they’re high in sugar or have bad fats, because companies changed their recipes to avoid the warnings.

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After Peru started putting warning labels on sugary drinks, companies changed their recipes to put less sugar and more artificial sweeteners in their drinks, so fewer drinks now had enough sugar to need a warning label.

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