As a vegetarian, I find ingredient lists pretty reliable and useful, and consult them regularly. There are a lot of non-obvious things you have to look out for if you're vegan, but even there it's usable and useful.
With a few things people like to avoid, it's tricky -- MSG notably can be under a bunch of different names -- but most common allergies are clearly highlighted, or at least not hidden.
If you don''t have specific things you need to avoid, then of course a list of the specific things in it is not useful, but why/how would it be? It has a purpose and it serves that purpose.
"Is this healthy?" isn't an answerable question. There's no one specific answer true for multiple people--it's analogous to "Will this website respect my privacy?" On the other hand, "Is this vegetarian" and "Will this website share my data with third parties" are. (Or are closer to being so.)
I want to know if there's meat in an item of food, and the label tells me that in a fairly easy-to-read format.
I want to know if my data will be shared to third-parties by a website, and the privacy policy maybe provides it to me, but in a very inaccessible manner.
With a few things people like to avoid, it's tricky -- MSG notably can be under a bunch of different names -- but most common allergies are clearly highlighted, or at least not hidden.
If you don''t have specific things you need to avoid, then of course a list of the specific things in it is not useful, but why/how would it be? It has a purpose and it serves that purpose.
"Is this healthy?" isn't an answerable question. There's no one specific answer true for multiple people--it's analogous to "Will this website respect my privacy?" On the other hand, "Is this vegetarian" and "Will this website share my data with third parties" are. (Or are closer to being so.)
I want to know if there's meat in an item of food, and the label tells me that in a fairly easy-to-read format.
I want to know if my data will be shared to third-parties by a website, and the privacy policy maybe provides it to me, but in a very inaccessible manner.