Consumer NZ is taking sweet revenge on food companies which it claims promote their products as healthier than they really are. The agency's Bad Taste Food Awards are designed to highlight how some product lines are "full of sugar, yet carried claims designed to make them appeal to health-conscious consumers, such as "no artificial sweeteners", "natural" or "fat-free". Consumer NZ chief executive Sue Chetwin said that laws were designed to prevent companies misleading customers about their products - but manufacturers continued to push the boundaries. The recipients of this year's Consumer NZ Bad Taste Food Awards are:Pump flavoured waters"The Pump range of flavoured waters boast they're 'low in sugar' but each bottle contains more than four teaspoons of sugar." However, if you drank an entire 500ml bottle, you'll have consumed between 9 and 10 teaspoons of sugar."

Source: Otago Daily Times November 29, 2017 21:22 UTC