{"id":332792,"date":"2019-12-21T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=332792"},"modified":"2019-12-21T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T13:32:26","slug":"woolworths-explains-incorrect-nutritional-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/332792-woolworths-explains-incorrect-nutritional-information.html","title":{"rendered":"Woolworths explains incorrect nutritional information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woolworths explained that a change in the size of sausages was behind incorrect nutritional information on its packaging.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband recently investigated the accuracy of nutritional information on food packaging and found a few discrepancies.<\/p>\n

One of these was Woolworth\u2019s Cheese Grillers, which incorrectly stated that each sausage contains 408kJ of energy.<\/p>\n

The 375g package contained six sausages of 62.5g each. At 1,224kJ per 100g, this translates into 702.5kJ per sausage.<\/p>\n

This inaccurate information may mislead people who rely on nutritional information on food packaging to maintain a calorie-controlled diet.<\/p>\n

Woolworths explains<\/h3>\n

Woolworths explained that the Cheese Griller sausages were previously shorter, but were changed to a longer version which changed the weight of individual sausages from about 33g to 62.5g each.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the sausages were changed to the longer version, the front label of the product was corrected to indicate the new product weight, namely 375g,\u201d Woolworths said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, a miscommunication caused the update of the back label to the new sausage weight to be omitted, thus causing the subsequent nutritional information per sausage error.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said it is an isolated mistake is an unfortunate oversight that it has now corrected. The label correction will be phased in to minimise packaging waste.<\/p>\n

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Woolworths Cheese Grillers packaging<\/h3>\n

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Now read: Woolworths sees massive online sales growth<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woolworths explains why the energy per portion on its packaging is much lower than what it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":294352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[35,8507],"class_list":["post-332792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332878,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332792\/revisions\/332878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}