Researchers find most packaged food fails nutrition test
A university study finds only 41% was supermarket goods are sufficiently healthy
Nevil Gibson for NBR Food Industry Week Mon, 13 Apr 2015
New university research finds fewer than half of all packaged foods available in New Zealand and Australia in 2012 met nutritional criteria to carry health claims.
The University of Auckland study, published in Public Health Nutrition, is based on large, regular surveys of food composition from
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