Poll: Do Health Star Ratings influence your grocery shop?
National MP Shane Reti shared pre-election that he's wanting to review the Health Star Rating used on NZ grocery products. This rating is voluntary and uses a scale of 0.5 to five stars to rank packaged food on its nutrient profile. Have these ratings had an affect on what you've been buying?
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19.9% Yes, I use them a lot
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47.9% No, I don't look at them
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31.1% Occasionally they are helpful
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1% Other - I'll share below
2025: The Year of Puzzling It Out!
Thereโs a one-story house where everything is yellow.
The walls are yellow, the doors are yellow, and even the furniture is yellow.
What colour are the stairs?
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Out with the Old, In with the Confusing!
I have hands but canโt clap.
What am I?
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