Enjoying Confectionery Responsibly

"People tell us that confectionery feels naughty (but good!) and that’s part of its enduring appeal. Food scares are a worry. Natural is better. When it comes to health people feel there is conflicting advice on what’s good for you. Labelling that demonises the food that you enjoy can make everything seem hopeless. What we want is positive advice. People say that confectionery is a treat that makes life fun! So how can we help...?"

Portrait Of Sarah Barron

Sarah Barron, Chocolate CIC Director, Cadbury

What You Said

"Can you please advise what kind of vegetable fat is used in Cadbury Dairy Milk? There is much information on your Web site about the milk that goes into the chocolate but nothing about the type of vegetable fat used. Is it hydrogenated fat? Thank you."

A Consumer

"I don’t buy chocolate yogurts. Unless it is for a treat. And they never have them for breakfast. They have them as a dessert. So they kind off already appreciate that there is a time and place for it and that you have it extra to your proper daily diet and not instead of."

Consumer, Lisa Wilkins, Insight Group, August 17, 2008, London, UK

"We think it is very important for manufacturers to ensure that their labelling is correct and this is the only way that consumers know what they are eating"

Consumer, Ms. Hanmore

"About 71 per cent Indians say they take notice of packaged goods’ labels containing nutritional information compared to two years ago but only 59 per cent Indians mostly understand the nutritional panels and labels that they read on the food packaging, according to findings from a recent internet survey on food labelling and nutrition conducted in 51 countries by Nielsen Company."

Business Standard, Mumbai August 12, 2008

"The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revised its guidance on the use of words such as 'fresh', 'natural' and 'pure' to provide clearer advice to manufacturers."

Food Navigator, July 11, 2008

"The cost of obesity to society is enormous: approaching 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in some countries in the WHO European Region, according to recent studies. Further, obesity in adults accounts for up to 6% of direct health costs in the Region. Additional, indirect costs - due to premature loss of life, productivity and related income - are at least twice the direct costs. In Spain, for example, the total cost attributable to obesity is estimated to be €2.5 billion per year."

World Health Organisation, London, Copenhagen, 2 November, 2006

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