Report: Packaged Food Cos. Selling Trillions Fewer Calories
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It might not seem like it during a trip down the snack aisle, but packaged foods are getting lighter — by trillions of calories, according to a new study from a public health group.
The total calories in products sold by 16 of the nation’s largest food and beverage marketers dropped by 6.4 trillion from 2007 to 2012, according to an independent evaluation funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The companies — which include General Mills, Kraft Foods Group, Nestle, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Co. — had pledged to remove 1 trillion calories in the five-year period ending in 2012 and 1.5 trillion by 2015, using 2007 as a baseline year. The initiative is run through an organization called the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, an industry group that was formed in 2009.
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