Maybe my original idea is old hat---

[tomwed]

I shop the perimeter of the grocery stores now so I don't need to read the labels very much. But now my son cannot eat gluten and he's reading labels.

Here is my idea that needs work.
How about a thin stripes around food products? boxes, cans, frozen food, jars

green stripe----no gluten
silver stripe----no sugar
cyan stripe-----no caffeine
sunny yellow---no salt
white-----------no wheat

Can you think of any more ingredients that require warnings? I tried to make the colors start with the letter of the ingredient as best I could.

[gerryann]

I shop the perimeter of the grocery stores now so I don't need to read the labels very much. But now my son cannot eat gluten and he's reading labels.

Here is my idea that needs work.
How about a thin stripes around food products? boxes, cans, frozen food, jars

green stripe----no gluten
silver stripe----no sugar
cyan stripe-----no caffeine
sunny yellow---no salt
white-----------no wheat

Can you think of any more ingredients that require warnings? I tried to make the colors start with the letter of the ingredient as best I could.

I would love to see NO MSG on labels. Some of the labels are so small. If I can't read it, I can't buy it. Unfortunately, MSG is being added to a lot of products lately. Aldi's has removed it from ALL of their store brand products.

[Jima64]

fat-free or low fat

[tomwed]

I would love to see NO MSG on labels. Some of the labels are so small. If I can't read it, I can't buy it. Unfortunately, MSG is being added to a lot of products lately. Aldi's has removed it from ALL of their store brand products.
You got it.

midnight blue---no MSG

[tomwed]

fat-free or low fat

You got it.
fire engine red......fat free

Is low fat defined by an agreed upon percentage of fat?

[Sable99]

I've been reading labels for years. It drives me crazy that the print on the labels is so small you have to take a magnifying glass to the grocery store! So, you might have a good idea!

But the grocery stores will never go along with it. How would they be able to move all the items to different aisles? By moving things around, they get the consumer to look at more aisles and see different products. Items that probably weren't on their shopping list. It's a win for the grocer because the consumer spends more money. The color coding would defeat their purpose.

[tomwed]

I've been reading labels for years. It drives me crazy that the print on the labels is so small you have to take a magnifying glass to the grocery store! So, you might have a good idea!

But the grocery stores will never go along with it. How would they be able to move all the items to different aisles? By moving things around, they get the consumer to look at more aisles and see different products. Items that probably weren't on their shopping list. It's a win for the grocer because the consumer spends more money. The color coding would defeat their purpose.

The items stay where they are. Let's pretend you are looking at rice and pick up a box of rice a roni in the rice section of the store.

The box has a cyan stripe and silver stripe. You would know it was caffeine free and had no sugar. The other stripes are missing so this item has gluten,salt,wheat,msg.
no reading

My son would only look for items that have a green stripe.

the legend or rules,,,if it has a:
green stripe----no gluten
silver stripe----no sugar
cyan stripe-----no caffeine
sunny yellow---no salt
white-----------no wheat
matalic blue---no msg

I think the store might sell more to my son because he has more money than time. So I could see him trying lot's of products with green stripes.