nutri-score

Is Ursula von der Leyen bringing the Nutri-Score food label and robots to the entire European Union? Sustainability is high on the agenda of the new European President and her team, and that means "consuming and trading differently".

German discounters Aldi and Lidl are join the growing number of retailers who use the Nutri-Score label to clearly display how healthy their products are. The label indicates the health value of the discounters' own brand products.

Food giant Nestlé has given up its resistance to the Nutri-Score and has promised to introduce it throughout Europe. For a long time, the Swiss company was against the French food label and even invented its own - controversial - alternative.

Seven European organisations for consumer rights demand that Nutri-Score, a better version of the traffic light food information system, be made mandatory. They have started an online petition, which needs to get a million signatures before it can be brought to the European Commission.