The lights They Are A Changing

 Will The Food Standards Agency’s
 New Labelling Scheme
Get the green Light?

    
Traffic-light labelling
  — gives red, amber or green traffic lights
 for levels of sugar, fat and salt content —

The Pros

The Cons

.It's simple.
Green for good. 
Red for bad.
Amber somewhere in the middle.
Now we can all cope with that can't we?.
Not to much room taken up on label.
No long complicated explanations,  
No confusing Numbers. Just three coloured lights.

What do others think?

Perhaps Too Simple
Perhaps confusing
Are three ambers 
     
better than one green one red and one amber?
     
Or how about two greens and one red?
     
I could go on, but perhaps not.

So is it simple
I suppose the answer must be
 maybe
It may also be
 Simply misleading

"Whatever helps us understand our food better must be a good  thing"
But will it?
Clearlabelling would just like to point out, that Red/Green colour blindness is the most common form of colour blindness.
So to a person with impaired colour vision the colours could look like this.
             

             

             

Very Useful (Not)

So what is the alternative?
Some Food manufacturers are adopting a sort of Pie chart giving the GDA (Guideline Daily Amount). More accurate certainly, but is it too complicated?

Judge for yourselves

One thing to be said for this example, which was on a packet of "Sharwoods Mini puppodums". Is that it is black on white and we like black on white as we can read it, colour blind or not.

However one thing is certain the argument about food labelling is sure to go on and on.