{"id":26594,"date":"2017-04-18T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=26594"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T10:28:04","slug":"a-final-trip-to-the-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/a-final-trip-to-the-store\/","title":{"rendered":"A final trip to the store"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week* we took a tour around France and learned about les gentil\u00e9s <\/strong>(‘the names of the inhabitants’)<\/em> of a number of French cities and towns. This week we’ll complete our shopping trip with a look at the new food labeling coming to France en avril <\/strong>(in April)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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In order to help les consommateurs<\/strong> (consumers) <\/em>to make better choices au supermarch\u00e9<\/strong> (at the supermarket<\/em>), le Minist\u00e8re des Affaires sociales et de la Sant\u00e9<\/strong> (the French health ministry<\/em>) is introducing\u00a0le Nutri-Score<\/strong>. This new food labeling system, which ranks prepared foods from vert \u00e0 l’orange fonc\u00e9 <\/a><\/strong>(green to dark orange), <\/em>is intended to make it plus facile<\/strong> (easier)<\/em> for shoppers to identify foods that are\u00a0bon<\/strong> (good)<\/em> from those that are\u00a0mauvais<\/strong> (bad).
\n<\/em>The new label is optional (facultative<\/strong>) so it’s quite possible that some producteurs<\/strong> (manufactures, producers)<\/em> may choose not to use it.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about le nouveau logo nutritionnel <\/strong>(the new nutritional logo)<\/em> in the following video. With the vocabulary in this post, you should be able to understand most of the text.<\/p>\n