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title: "Listen: The disguised malnutrition stalking our kitchen cupboards"
description: "Maverick Citizen journalist Zukiswa Pikoli discusses the dangers of ultra processed foods like cereals, chips, biscuits, bread and sugary drinks and how they are contributing to our country's malnutrition and obesity rates and how some of them are disguised as 'healthy alternatives'. illustrating the need for effective Front of package labelling (Fopl), with journalist Laura Lopez Gonzalez, Nutritionist and dietician Dr. Makoma Bopape and Food Justice experts Nzama Mbalati and Eunice Montsho from HEALA."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "Maverick Citizen"
author: "Zukiswa Pikoli"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/zukiswa-pikoli/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-24-listen-the-disguised-malnutrition-stalking-our-kitchen-cupboards/"
published: "2022-08-24T19:26:25"
updated: "2022-08-24T19:28:17"
lang: "en-ZA"
---

# Listen: The disguised malnutrition stalking our kitchen cupboards

> Maverick Citizen journalist Zukiswa Pikoli discusses the dangers of ultra processed foods like cereals, chips, biscuits, bread and sugary drinks and how they are contributing to our country's malnutrition and obesity rates and how some of them are disguised as 'healthy alternatives'. illustrating the need for effective Front of package labelling (Fopl), with journalist Laura Lopez Gonzalez, Nutritionist and dietician Dr. Makoma Bopape and Food Justice experts Nzama Mbalati and Eunice Montsho from HEALA.

By Zukiswa Pikoli · Published 24 August 2022, 21:26 SAST · Updated 24 August 2022, 21:28 SAST