Calorie Menu Labeling
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This year, the UK implemented a law requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus. Where did these policies come from? What impact do they have? And why is a Julia Roberts quote from 1990 the best way to describe them?
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- Calorie Labelling Regulations - GOV.UK
- Calorie labelling: implementation guidance - GOV.UK
- Do Menu Calorie Counts Actually Change How We Eat?
- Calorie counts on menus: What's the real impact on diners and restaurants?
- Court Upholds the City's Rule Requiring Some Restaurants to Post Calorie Counts
- Menu Labeling | Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Menu Labeling Requirements | FDA
- Calorie Labeling And Food Choices: A First Look At The Effects On Low-Income People In New York City
- The influence of calorie labeling on food orders and consumption: A review of the literature - PMC
- Changes in Calorie Content of Menu Items at Large Chain Restaurants After Implementation of Calorie Labels
- Why Listing Calorie Counts on Menus Can Do More Harm Than Good
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, I have one but it's bad and we might get sued. |
| 0:13.5 | Uh, I'm listening. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to Maintenance Faze, the podcast that's about calories, turning sands into the |
| 0:25.9 | acid. That has been stuck in my head ever since the last episode. Every time you say that |
| 0:31.0 | word, I think I have had a similar one, which is the more that I have read about this |
| 0:37.6 | topic, the angrier I have gotten. And at one point, someone drove by our house and was |
| 0:44.2 | listening to Sofresh and Soclean. Okay. Nobody met as we are just so full of rage. |
| 0:51.4 | Right? It works. It works. You definitely want us to get sued. |
| 0:55.1 | Uh, I'm Michael Hobbs. Uh, I'm Aubrey Gordon. And if you want to support the show, you |
| 1:03.0 | can do that on Patreon at patreon.com slash maintenance phase. I haven't done this in |
| 1:08.4 | a while. Uh, we have t-shirts, uh, there's donations and there's links for you in the description. |
| 1:14.2 | And if you don't or can't want to support us, that's also chill. Yeah, hang out. Keep |
| 1:18.4 | listening. And today we're talking about calories again. Calories part two. So many calories |
| 1:25.1 | calories. This is the episode that I kept like flagging for you slash threatening to make |
| 1:31.7 | into a three-parter. And you were like, no, I remember those negotiations. Yes. So I'm |
| 1:39.4 | like very excited this time around what we are going to talk about is perhaps our most |
| 1:44.4 | requested topic from UK listeners, which is menu labeling. Yes. And when we talk about |
| 1:51.4 | menu labeling, we're talking about one really specific thing, which is listing the calories |
| 1:57.1 | in a dish next to the name of the dish and the price of the dish. So we're not talking |
| 2:02.7 | about policies that are necessarily like this has this allergen or like ingredients. Yeah. |
| 2:08.3 | It's full on just like the price is 899 and this has 600 calories. And like the calorie |
| 2:13.3 | count is like almost as big as the price usually or the same size. Yes. And actually that's |
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