MARS, the brand responsible for making candies and chocolate bars famous around the world, has announced that it discontinued the manufacture of large size chocolates (King Size or Big One) depending on the country.
descontinuarán chocolates that provide more than 250 calories per serving, as a measure against the overweight.
because of the commitment that Mars has been contribute their grain of sand against obesity and other problems carried by excess cholesterol and sugar, from February 16 it was announced that they will no longer manufacture the largest product varieties.
Due to many global initiatives and the extensive concern that Mars has with respect to the health and nutrition of our consumers, we have decided to discontinue the sizes of our products containing more than 250 calories by the end of 2013 .
This as well as the discontinuation of the largest size, would also involve a possible reduction in their chocolates of regular size (considering that a Snickers bar contains 280 calories).
Another of the goals to achieve on Mars with respect to their chocolates and candy products is eliminate trans fats and saturated in as much as possible and the directors of the company that produces candy such as Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles and others expect deletion of sodium in their products by 25% by 2015, as reported in the report.
Obesity is a very serious problem around the world, but it is good that large companies of food scrap also expressed its concern with regard to the issue and removed their products that most damage to health (in some way).
