Danone is removing nutriscore
Dairy giant Danone recently announced it would phase out the Nutri-Score label from its dairy and plant-based drinks packaging in Europe, following an amendment classifying such drinks under the “beverage category.” The company told us the updated rules give consumers an “erroneous view of the nutritional and functional quality of drinkable dairy and plant-based products.”
Professor Serge Hercberg stated that contrary to what Danone says, it’s not drinking yogurts or plant-based drinks that are being penalized by the update of Nutri-Score, but the sweetened forms of these products that have had their Nutri-Score downgraded. With the updated Nutri-Score, versions of these products with little or no added sugar (less than 4%) are still well classified as green or B. Only the sweetened forms of drinking yogurts and vegetable drinks are classified as C, D or E, depending on their sugar content.