FOOD companies have long wanted more freedom to make nutritional claims for their products.

The agency has approved two petitions and is considering several more from companies that are seeking to make nutritional claims for their foods.

Read on to learn which nutritional claims you can trust and which are pure hype.

Wafer bar launched in September 2010 that suffered some package resizing during the following months with different nutritional claims.

Besides, he added: "There's nothing forcing any restaurant to make a nutritional claim for anything on its menu.

The new rules also make it much more difficult to inflate nutritional claims.

It therefore seems perfectly fair that those who market foodstuffs in packaging on which nutritional claims are made should be able to justify them.

As with the other speakers, my remarks concern the report on nutritional and health claims.

However, what on earth can be wrong with asking manufacturers who make health and nutritional claims to give the scientific evidence for those claims?

I therefore believe that until there are conclusive studies, the nutritional claim should not be authorised.