Nutri-Score nutritional labelling system
Nutri-Score is a system for calculating the nutritional quality of food products with A to E grades, and showing them with a sliding scale, with the healthiest products marked with a green A and the unhealthiest with a red E. The assessment is based on an algorithm which ranks foods from -15 for the healthiest products to +50 for the most unhealthy, allocates negative points to nutrients like saturated fats, calories, sugar and sodium and positive ones for the proportion of fruits, vegetables, proteins and fibres in the product. Since its release in France in 2017, Nutri-Score has been adopted by a number of EU countries, including Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Approximately a quarter of food sold in France is said to use the voluntary labelling system.
- Organisation involved
- Government of France; Government of Germany; Government of Belgium; Nestle; Auchan; Danone
- Product, system or model
- Nutri-Score
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