5: Is healthy food healthy? Can you trust the food label? (with Alie de Boer)
In the supermarket, you can find many different products. You can use the information on the label of a product to decide whether a specific product is the healthiest choice for you today. But when can food producers for example say that a product contains a lot of vitamins or that the ingredients boost your immune system? Why can you read on the label of orange juice that it is a vitamin C-rich product, but you don't see this on most oranges? Today with Dr Alie de Boer we will dive into the concept of healthy foods, asking what kind of scientific evidence underlies nutrition and health claims and discussing why such claims are of interest not just to producers, but also to consumers.
Dr. Alie de Boer is Assistant Professor in nutrition and food law at Maastricht University’s Campus Venlo. Alie is a nutritional scientist and has specialised in the link between nutrition and food law. As the founder and head of the Food Claims Centre Venlo, she studies how you can scientifically prove that food is legally considered to be safe and healthy.