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89 percent of children's food products provide poor nutritional ...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 07/13/2008 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a Canadian study in the July issue of Obesity Reviews.

Professor Charlene Elliott used US guidelines to review 367 products. 70 percent of the products had higher than recommended sugar levels, 23 percent had high fat levels and 17 percent had high salt levels.