Whats in Foods Marketed to Kids?
By Rosalie Marion Bliss April 30, 2007 When buying foods for children, it’s reasonable to reach for those that feature extra nutrition information on the front of the package. Marketing labels that highlight, for example, “good source of nutrient x, y or z” appear to offer a nutritional home run. But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) nutritionist Sarah Colby explains that more than half of the kids’ foods that feature such information in the six major grocery stores in her local area were found to also be high in saturated fat, sodium and/or added sugar. Colby is with the ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D. She is among ARS scientists giving more than 100 presentations between April 28 and May 2 at the annual Experimental Biology (EB) 2007 meeting at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific research agency. EB is sponsored by member societies of the Federation of American Societies
