Researchers at the University of Granada have revealed that the Nutri-Score labeling system, commonly used in Europe to assess food quality, is unable to adequately reflect the nutritional and metabolic complexity of soluble cocoa sold in Spain.
The study, which is a pioneer internationally for integrating non-targeted metabolomics techniques applied to the evaluation of nutritional labeling systems, analyzed 54 products from 19 different brands with Nutri-Score ratings between A and D.
The scientific team has shown that there is no correlation between the Nutri-Score category and the actual nutritional composition of the food products studied, especially with regard to bioactive compounds with beneficial health effects.
A system that penalizes products richer in healthy compounds
The analysis…