This is how labels fool us: poultry soup with 0.8% chicken and 'diet' jam full of sugar

El Pais

Lean Left

High Factuality

Media Conglomerate: PRISA

This is how labels fool us: poultry soup with 0.8% chicken and 'diet' jam full of sugar

A poultry soup containing 0.8% chicken. Toasts with ham that don't have ham. A diet jam full of sugar. Packaged products aren't always what they seem. The food industry uses different tricks to camouflage the most harmful ingredients (such as fats, sugar or salt) and make food appear healthier and more appetizing. Journalist Laura Caorsi (Montevideo, 45), who has just published Fantastic Food, is well aware of this. Emergency manual for learning…