NUTRITION EXPERTS ADD TRAFFIC LIGHT HEALTH LABELS TO FOOD PAINTINGS
- Nutritionists have added traffic light labels to some of the most famous artworks
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Whether it's an overflowing basket of apples, a giant mound of butter or several cans of tomato soup: the art world has given us some of the most iconic and memorable depictions of food ever.
However, artists like Cézanne and Manet painted their still life masterpieces long before nutritional science enabled consumers to make fully informed choices about their diets and portion sizes.
Today, nutritional experts at Voy have applied standard supermarket nutritional information traffic light labels to some of the most iconic still life artworks.
Art lovers and foodies alike can now admire Antoine Vollon's Mound of Butter or Paul Cézanne's Basket of Apples while also understanding the quantities of fat, saturates, proteins, sugars and calories these world famous canvases depict.
Here, FEMAIL lists all of the masterpieces and what the expert nutritionists have to say about them...
Emily Wood, a nutritionist from Voy commented, 'We know that on the face of it, it seems madness to 'reduce' masterpieces to a series of coloured boxes and numbers when there is so much more going on in these paintings.
'Art is all about context and just as there are an abundance of factors and subtleties at play in every painting, so too when we are choosing what to eat and how these foods will bring us joy, nourishment or both.
'We wanted to use some of the world's most iconic depictions of food to remind people that no food is simply 'good' or 'bad'. Just because a food item has red traffic lights doesn't mean it's off limits.
'Likewise, only eating foods with green traffic light labels isn't necessarily a good thing for the body or the mind.
'It's all about balance and giving people the information and the context they need to make balanced food choices which work for them.'
