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Dedicated
in helping customers sustain a healthy balanced diet, YO! Sushi has
produced a nutritional booklet for its recipes incorporating the Food
Standards Agency's (FSA) traffic light labelling approach. This marks
a revolutionary move - YO! Sushi is the first restaurant group to
adopt such a labelling approach. YO! Sushi's Heath & Hygiene
Manager, Ian Turner announces:
"YO! Sushi's
decision to adopt the FSA's colour coded traffic light approach in
our nutritional booklet is yet another sign of our on-going
commitment in helping our customers enjoy a yummy yet nutritious and
balanced meal. Complementing our freshly prepared Japanese inspired
dishes, this 'at-a-glance' nutritional system will be an additional
benefit to all our health-conscious customers."
The FSA's traffic light labelling
approach can help customers in choosing between products, keeping a
check on the amounts of foods high in fat, saturated fat, sugars and
salt consumed. By displaying how much of each nutrient is in a
portion (the YO! Sushi nutritional booklet should be treated as a
guideline only and the colours for the traffic light labelling
approach is based on the FSA's guidelines per 100g of food), this
allows customers to compare these figures and choose the one that is
lower to make that healthier choice.
What do
the traffic light colours mean?
* A red light
means the food is high in something customers should be trying to cut
down - however it is fine to consume the food occasionally, eating it
in smaller amounts or as a treat.
* An
amber light means the food isn't high or low in the
nutrient so is an 'OK' choice most of the time, however for some of
the time, customers may want to go for a green light for that nutrient.
* A
green light means the food is low in that specific
nutrient therefore the more green lights, the healthier the choice!
As well as displaying the traffic
light colours and nutritional figures for each dish, the nutritional
booklet provides a quick guide to customers with a food intolerance
or allergy, for example indicating if the dish is soya or gluten and
wheat free.
With the FSA continuing to
recommend consumers to eat at least one portion of oil rich fish a
week (as it is high in Omega 3) and at least 5 portions of fruit and
vegetables every day, we suggest you come and feast your eyes and
tummies on a colourful, nutritional and healthy balanced diet at YO! Sushi!
To download a version of the
booklet please visit:
http://www.yosushi.com/files/fb506c17-/YO!NutritionalBooklet.pdf
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