Stew on this — a new analysis of 10 grocery websites found that retailers provided nutrition facts and other pertinent information online only 35% of the time.
“The government has clearly intended that you should be able to know certain things about your food,” said senior study author and Tufts University professor Sean Cash. “The way we’ve regulated that in the United States is to put that information on the packaging. But that hasn’t carried over to online spaces very well.”
The study authors report that several online retailers failed to provide nutrition facts, ingredient lists and allergen information — but marketing claims about the products were prominent. Getty Images
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