JACK: I've still got loads to do for our report on nutritional food labels.

杰克：我们关于营养食品标签的报告还有很多事要做。

ALICE: Me too. What did you learn from doing the project about your own shopping habits?

爱丽丝：我也是。你从你购物习惯的课题学到了什么呢？

JACK: Well, I've always had to check labels for traces of peanuts in everything I eat because of my allergy.

杰克：恩，因为我的过敏症，所以一直要检查我吃的每个东西的标签查看食品是否含有花生。

But beyond that I've never really been concerned enough to check how healthy a product is.

但除此之外，我从未真正关心过一个产品有多健康。

ALICE: This project has actually taught me to read the labels much more carefully.

爱丽丝：这个课题实际上教会了我更仔细地阅读标签。

I tended to believe claims on packaging like 'low in fat'.

我以前倾向于相信包装，比如"脂肪很低"。

But I now realise that the 'healthy' yoghurt I've bought for years is full of sugar and that it's actually quite high in calories.

但我现在意识到，我多年来买的"健康"酸奶含有大量的糖分，而且实际上卡路里含量很高。

JACK: Ready meals are the worst ... comparing the labels on supermarket pizzas was a real eye-opener.

杰克：熟食最糟糕……比较超市比萨饼上的标签真是令人大开眼界。

Did you have any idea how many calories they contain? I was amazed.

你知道它们含有多少卡路里吗？我真的很震惊。

ALICE: Yes, because unless you read the label really carefully, you wouldn't know that the nutritional values given are for half a pizza.

爱丽丝：是的，因为除非你仔细阅读标签，你不会知道给你的营养价值是半个比萨饼。

JACK: When most people eat the whole pizza.

杰克：大多数人都会吃掉整个披萨。

Not exactly transparent is it?

说得很模糊，不是吗？

ALICE: Not at all. But I expect it won't stop you from buying pizza?

爱丽丝：是的。但我想这并不会阻止你继续购买披萨吧？

JACK: Probably not, no!

杰克：当然不会啦，绝不！

I thought comparing the different labelling systems used by food manufacturers was interesting.

我觉得比较食物生产商使用的不同标签系统非常有趣。

I think the kind of labelling system used makes a big difference.

我觉得使用的标签系统的类型有很大不同。

ALICE: Which one did you prefer?

爱丽丝：你喜欢哪一个呢？

JACK: I liked the traditional daily value system best - the one which tells you what proportion of your required daily intake of each ingredient the product contains.

杰克：我最喜欢传统的推荐每日摄取量体系。它告诉你产品中每种成分在你每日所需摄入量中所占的比例。

I'm not sure it's the easiest for people to use but at least you get the full story.

我并不确定这是最方便人们使用的，但是至少你会知道所有的东西。

I like to know all the ingredients in a product - not just how much fat, salt and sugar they contain.

我想知道一种产品的所有成分——不仅仅是它们含有多少脂肪、盐和糖。

ALICE: But it's good supermarkets have been making an effort to provide reliable information for customers.

爱丽丝：但是好的超市一直在努力为顾客提供可靠的信息。

JACK: Yes. There just needs to be more consistency between labelling systems used by different supermarkets, in terms of portion sizes, etc.

杰克：是的。不同超市使用的标签系统之间需要有更多的一致性，比如在份量等方面。

ALICE: Mmm. The labels on the different brands of chicken flavour crisps were quite revealing too, weren't they?

爱丽丝：嗯。不同牌子的鸡肉味薯片上的标签也很能说明问题，不是吗？

JACK: Yeah. I don't understand how they can get away with calling them chicken flavour when they only contain artificial additives.

杰克：是的。我不明白，当它们只含有人工添加剂时，它们怎么能被称为鸡肉味呢？

ALICE: I know. I'd at least have expected them to contain a small percentage of real chicken.

爱丽丝：我知道。至少我以为里面会含有一点点真的鸡肉。

JACK: Absolutely.

杰克：是的。

ALICE: I think having nutritional food labeling has been a good idea, don't you?

爱丽丝：我认为贴营养食品标签是个好主意，你说呢?

I think it will change people's behaviour and stop mothers, in particular, buying the wrong things.

我认为它将改变人们的行为，特别是阻止妈妈们买错误的东西。

JACK: But didn't that study kind of prove the opposite?

杰克：但是这个研究不是证明了相反的结果吗？

People didn't necessarily stop buying unhealthy products.

人们没有必要停止买不健康的食物。

ALICE: They only said that might be the case.

爱丽丝：他们只是说可能会那样。

Those findings weren't that conclusive and it was quite a small-scale study.

这些发现并不是结论性的，这是一个小范围的研究。

I think more research has to be done.

我想还需要做更多的研究。

JACK: Yes, I think you're probably right.

杰克：是的，我觉得你可能是对的。