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Practice dictation & shadowing on the Cambridge IELTS 13 Academic Listening Part 3 Test 4.
Cambridge IELTS 13 Academic Listening Test 4 Part 3
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Speaker 1 (1)
I still got loads to do for our report on nutritional food labels.
Speaker 2 (2)
Me too. What did you learn from doing the project about your own shopping habits?
Speaker 1 (3)
Well, I've always had to check labels for traces of peanuts in everything I eat because of my allergy.
Speaker 1 (4)
But beyond that, I've never really been concerned enough to check how healthy a product is.
Speaker 2 (5)
This project has actually taught me to read the labels much more carefully.
Speaker 2 (6)
I tended to believe claims on packaging, like 'low in fat.'
Speaker 2 (7)
But I now realise that the healthy yogurt I've bought for years is full of sugar and that it's actually quite high in calories.
Speaker 1 (8)
Mhmm. Ready meals are the worst.
Speaker 1 (9)
Comparing the labels on supermarket pizzas was a real eye opener.
Speaker 1 (10)
Did you have any idea how many calories they contain? I was amazed.
Speaker 2 (11)
Yes. Because unless you read the label really carefully, you wouldn't know that the nutritional values given are for half a pizza.
Speaker 1 (12)
When most people eat the whole pizza.
Speaker 1 (13)
Not exactly transparent, is it?
Speaker 2 (14)
Not at all. But I expect it won't stop you from buying pizza.
Speaker 1 (15)
Probably not. No. I thought comparing the different labeling systems used by food manufacturers was interesting.
Speaker 1 (16)
I think the kind of labelling system used makes a big difference.
Speaker 2 (17)
Which one did you prefer?
Speaker 1 (18)
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.
Speaker 1 (19)
I'm not sure it's the easiest for people to use, but at least you get the full story.
Speaker 1 (20)
I like to know all the ingredients in a product, not just how much fat, salt, and sugar they contain.
Speaker 2 (21)
But it's good supermarkets have been making an effort to provide reliable information for customers.
Speaker 1 (22)
Yes. There just needs to be more consistency between labeling systems used by different supermarkets in terms of portion sizes, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (23)
The labels on the different brands of chicken flavor crisps were quite revealing too, weren't they?
Speaker 1 (24)
Yeah. I don't understand how they can get away with calling them chicken flavor when they only contain artificial additives.
Speaker 2 (25)
I know. I'd at least have expected them to contain a small percentage of real chicken.
Speaker 1 (26)
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27)
I think having nutritional food labeling has been a good idea, don't you?
Speaker 2 (28)
I think it will change people's behavior and stop mothers in particular, buying the wrong things.
Speaker 1 (29)
But didn't that study kind of prove the opposite?
Speaker 1 (30)
People didn't necessarily stop buying unhealthy products.
Speaker 2 (31)
They only said that might be the case.
Speaker 2 (32)
Those findings weren't that conclusive, and it was quite a small-scale study.
Speaker 2 (33)
I think more research has to be done.
Speaker 1 (34)
Yes. I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (35)
What do you think of the traffic light system?
Speaker 2 (36)
I think supermarkets like the idea of having a colour-coded system, red, orange, or green, for levels of fat, sugar, and salt in a product.
Speaker 1 (37)
But it's not been adopted universally, and not on all products.
Speaker 1 (38)
Why do you suppose that is?
Speaker 2 (39)
Pressure from the food manufacturers.
Speaker 2 (40)
Hardly surprising that some of them are opposed to flagging up how unhealthy their products are.
Speaker 1 (41)
I'd have thought it would have been compulsory.
Speaker 1 (42)
It seems ridiculous it isn't.
Speaker 2 (43)
I know. And what I couldn't get over is the fact that it was brought in without enough consultation.
Speaker 2 (44)
A lot of experts had deep reservations about it.
Speaker 1 (45)
That is a bit weird. I suppose there's an argument for doing the research now when consumers are familiar with this system.
Speaker 2 (46)
Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 1 (47)
The participants in the survey were quite positive about the traffic light system.
Speaker 2 (48)
But I don't think they targeted the right people.
Speaker 2 (49)
They should have focused on people with low literacy levels because these labels are designed to be accessible to them.
Speaker 1 (50)
Yeah. But it's good to get feedback from all socioeconomic groups, and there wasn't much variation in their responses.
Speaker 2 (51)
No. But if they hadn't interviewed participants face-to-face, they could have used a much bigger sample size.
Speaker 2 (52)
I wonder why they chose that method.
Speaker 1 (53)
Dunno. How were they selected? Did they volunteer, or were they approached?
Speaker 2 (54)
I think they volunteered.
Speaker 2 (55)
The thing that wasn't stated was how often they bought packaged food.
Speaker 2 (56)
All we know is how frequently they use the supermarket.