Ask HN: What information would you like to see on product labels?

Re:Ask HN: What information would you like to see on product... by bttrfl on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:14AM (#27832204)

I'd love a dual, absolute/category, scale to make my decisioning easier. If something is green on an absolute scale then it's a smaller problem if I pick a product labeled red on on category scale. But I do know that I shouldn't do that.

Dual scale would make it possible to differentiate between two similar products - an "eco" cotton bag could be orange/green while a single plastic use bag could green/red. This way every one would know that an eco bag is worse than a plastic one unless you use it a lot.

Finally, producers would be motivated to optimise environmental impact of all kinds of products because having a red label would be shameful.

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Re:Ask HN: What information would you like to see on product... by melomal on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:06AM (#27832566)

The traffic light system is used in the UK to show how much sugar/salt/fat is in the product. To be honest it shocked me to see so much red for salt so it definitely was eye opening.

The issue with this, that I can now see, is that it would take government action to make this a requirement. But I can see that there would definitely be a benefit for education the customer.

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