Dietetic and conventional puddings: Evaluation of nutritional information that these labels contain

Abstract

In this work 7 samples of puddings were analyzed, being 5 dietary products and 2 conventional products, of five different marks. Acquired in supermarkets of the City of São Paulo, seeking to evaluate the nutritionals information contained in its labels. The puddings were prepared in agreement with the makers' indication and it was standardized for the dietary ones, the skimmed milk and, for the conventional ones, the integral milk. The analysis consisted of the determination Iipids, carbohydrates, proteins and of the calculation of the total caloric value. Methodologies described in the Analytic norms of the Instituto Adolfo Lutz being used. In the dietetic foods, two samples presented caloric values very different from the declared in the labels, where the calories carne, an underestimated in 63,80% and another overestimated in 35,93%. In the other samples, besides of the conventional products, the you are valued they found with smaller differences than 10,00%. With relationship to the lipids texts, only a sample (it marks B - conventional) it presented in the label text concordant with the experimental result. With relationship to the glucoside texts, except the sample (it marks B - dietary) that underestimated this value in 27% in the label, all the other samples indicated in the labels, texts of this component with differences below 10% of the obtained results experimentally. Os analyzed dietary products didn't assist to the patterns demanded by the legislation in vigor. The information nutricionais presented in the labels and packings are faulty and sometimes incorrect.