di Pandora Penamil Penafiel*
They say we are made in the image and likeness of our parents. And, fortunately or unfortunately, it is. Since all human beings, even the worst - um, let's remember Klara Hitler - have parents. What I didn't expect is what a nutritional traffic light he had a father… And on top of that he hated olive oil!
I can understand that an algorithm, which neither feels nor suffers, gives a lower classification than what olive oil deserves, taking into account only its fat composition. Well, I can come to understand that the algorithm has flaws, that it is a very recent system, that it offers distorted information about the product and so on. But what a human apparently educated, professor Paris Diderot, Pierre and Marie Curie University and Kansas, author of studies and books against lobbies in the food sector, you say that “olive oil cannot have the high note in the Nutri-score because it is 100% fat” it's a bit silly. It has no other explanation. Oh yes, monsieur Serge Hercberc, as a good French, she loves to have breakfast with buttered croissants and in the end he ended up selling his soul to the devil of this lobby.
For those of you who still don't understand my outrage, I'll try to summarize the situation. The "father" of the Nutri-score, as he is known in the food industry, gave an interview to the EFE agency in which he boasted of his animosity towards extra virgin olive oil, assuring that "it is not legitimate" for this food to hold the A in the famous nutritional traffic light. We are talking about a system that assigns the letter B to Coca-Cola, whose ingredients are: carbonated water, sugar, color E-150d, acidifier, phosphoric acid, natural flavors and caffeine flavor. The same letter shows the EVO oil, whose ingredients are: 100% olive juice. And what's more, we feel we have to thank you because it started with the letter C, that is, in the category of "recommended foods for occasional consumption". A fantastic one Coca-Cola per day, but be careful with extra virgin olive oil! Anyway.
It is this gentleman, who says he reads a lot in the press that the olive oil sector wants class A - as if it were an eccentricity - who wonders: "Is it the economic sector that decides how to classify a product?" or is it the scientists? In response, I wonder: gentlemen who believe that Coca-Cola has the same nutritional benefits as EVO can call themselves scientists?
Listen, Mr. Hercberc: thanks to us, you can go and eat buttered croutons wherever you like, but leave us alone and review your acquaintances, because they must have remained in the Belle Epoque!
*Executive Director at Olivatessen by Mercacei
