Organic Snacks Too Could Be Bad For You: Watchdog
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2018-05-15 HKT 13:27
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Health conscious customers who dish out extra to buy organic snacks – beware. The extra cost doesn't buy you good health, warns the Consumer Council.
The watchdog, which tested some of the organic snacks sold in the city, found many of them contain too much sugar or fat.
The watchdog checked 30 popular organic snacks on the market, including chocolates, sweets and dried fruit.
It found that 100 grammes of the chocolate samples they tested contained more than the recommended daily intake for saturated fat.
You would also hit the daily sugar intake limit set by the WHO if you ate 100 grammes of these organic sweets, the council said.
The council's chief executive Gilly Wong said consumers have to drop the misconception that organic means healthy.
"We have to educate the consumer. Once they see on the package, organic food, they go crazy," she said. They think it is a lot more healthier. But it is not the case."
She urged people to look carefully at nutrition labels to understand what is in a product.
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