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Even after Peru put warning labels on unhealthy foods, the amount of salt in the most popular snacks and drinks didn’t really change—and most of them weren’t even super salty to begin with.

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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

Cohort Study
2022 Dec 27

The study looked at whether food companies changed their recipes after putting warning labels on packages, and they did for sugar and fat—but they didn’t say anything about salt. So we can’t tell if the claim about salt is true or not.

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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

Similar Assertions

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 super-sweet drinks, companies changed their recipes to use less sugar and more artificial sweeteners, so fewer drinks now need the warning label.

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After Mexico put warning labels on unhealthy foods, companies started making bread, snacks, and instant meals with less salt—so much less that in some cases, over 60% fewer products were labeled as too salty.

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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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