A company in Santa Barbara, CA called Nutricate has introduced a receipt system that displays the nutritional information of your order on your receipt. The company is targeting fast food and quick service restaurants, along with schools. They say that this will change Americans eating habits because right now Americans grossly underestimate the amount of calories and fat in their restaurant orders. They also said that this will get adults and children educated about nutrition.

I thought this was a great idea, what does everyone else think?

This blog explains the receipt in detail: www.nutricate.blogspot.com

This is a welcome change from all the junk food that everybody is eating which is leading to obesity and toxins entering our body. Im sure the nutritional factor will make the people conscious of the harmful things we are eating and stop eating all the fast food..
This is indeed a great move !

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Highly recommended !!

That's a good link.

No fast food places are going to use the receipt system that tells people what crap they are eating. They'd be out of business in a week.

I like this a lot. I already know how to eat perfectly. I don't always do it- eating too much, too quickly, with not enough apprecation- but I do it very well, almost perfect. I'm 100 percent vegan, and 70+ percent raw and organic, so I don't have to worry about my health

I am especially interested in issues regarding where people have choice or do not have choice, and one of these places is the school lunch. Sure they can bring their own from home, but as kids and pre-teens that is dependent on the active role their parents take- or don't take, in health. So kids don't really have choice. Giving them a receipt with nutritional information may cause them to ask questions about what they consume, which would be very very very very very good. That is what should happen.

There can be controversies in several places. There can be controversy about the nutrition in food you eat, which this program would help clarify and solve. There is the issue of how much the human body needs for growth and health maintenance- i.e. how many protein grams do we need a day, versus how much protein is in this meal. Should there really be five food groups or should we question our western diet even deeper?

But I like the sound of this program.

Eat well

Printing out a nutrition receipt will make very little difference. People who are truly concerned about what they eat find that information posted at the fast food location or their web site. Everyone else will simply ignore the receipt, especially if it has all the information on a packaged food nutrition label. After all, most people don't read those labels.

This isn't to say it's a bad idea. It would make it easier for the small minority who do watch what they eat.