Bought some Christmas biscuits today and on the 5 star health rating system they have half a star. I think that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen. Go biscuits.
I hope you mean “health rating” as in level of nutritiousness, and not as in cleanliness of the facilities where it’s produced
Yeah it’s a nutrition rating. Australia has some of the highest food and water safety standards in the world.
#food#the health star rating is a bit clunky because it’s a comparison between similar products#so it’s not like the biscuits are at one end and fresh fruit is at the other#it’s more like one brand of chocolate biscuits will be at one end and a different brand of chocolate biscuits will be at the other#still 0.5 stars is impressive
So what you’re saying is that the biscuits are nutritionally pitiful EVEN FOR BISCUITS
Just STUMBLING over that grounded fucking bar
The Health Star Rating System is meant to compare across the same category of foods.
Would you believe that there’s only six categories across which food star ratings are compared?
- Non-dairy beverages (Category 1)
- Dairy beverages (Category 1D)
- Oils and Spreads Including Butter And Margarine (Category 3)
- Cheese and processed Cheese (Category 3D)
- Dairy Foods Not Included In Categories 1D and 3D (Category 2D, aka “Dairy Products That Aren’t Beverages, Butter, Margarine Or Cheese”)
- Al foods other than those included in categories 1, 1D, 2D, 3 or 3D (Category 2, aka “Everything That’s Not Dairy Based, A Beverage, An Oil or Spread”)
So essentially, not only does that mean that the 0.5 star biscuits are worse than many other biscuits, for the purposes of comparison they are comparable to (and worse than most) breakfast cereals, chicken, fruits, bread rolls, and so on.
After all, we all know that when we’re trying to pick a snack, we’re going to compare a cookie with a jar of pasta sauce because the star rating system says they’re in the same category of foods.
Well that does explain the low rating but what the fuck
The other bit that makes no sense is that you’re not at all required to put your health stat rating on your packaging at all! Like i can see if you’re a 4.5 or 5 star food, or like even in the 3 ish range for something generally considered not that healthy, then that’s a selling point, but why would you ever ever choose to show the half star?!?! Why would you advertise ‘this is the least healthy on the how healthy is the food scale!’