Guiding Stars Steering People Towards Healthier Food Choices

A program is helping people make healthier choices at the grocery store. Loblaws has introduced its Guiding Stars program in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and PEI. The program scores products where foods acquire stars for containing more vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, whole grains, and omega-3 fats and loss value for containing saturated fat, trans fat, added sodium, or added sugars. Registered Dietician Jenny Mulock says the product is then graded. She says “After all the foods have been rated, they’re given a star rating and foods are given anywhere’s from zero to three stars and of course, three stars are the most nutritious and you’ll start to see these stars on all of the shelf labels, so it’s a really quick and easier way to make healthier food choices in the store.” Mulock says using the Guiding Stars program is a good step to make sure you’re choosing healthy foods.