Claim: Restaurants should be required to display nutritional information about the food they serve.
Reason: This knowledge will help diners make healthy choices and reduce their risk of diet-related health problems.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The author has argued that disclosure of nutritional information should be mandatory because consumers can use the information to evalaute their choices and make salubrious decisions. However, resturants might distort the information they provide or the information might be crucial for the operation of their business, such as secret ingredients. In addition, diners might not bother reading the nutritional information or they might not care at all. Therefore, resturants should have the option to choose whether they intend to display the nutritional information of their products.
The same information can be presented in distinct formats to achieve different results. For example, resturants could use pie charts to present the amount of sodium and sugar in a hamburger because this would cause the amount of sodium and sugar to appear less when compared to other types of ingredients such as carbohydrates and protein. Unless consumers carefully discern this information, they could be misinformed and assume that the hamburger has a low amount of sugar and sodium and is not banal to health. The mandatory disclosure of nutritional information simply allows resturants to freely spin the information in their favor.
For some resturants, providing the ingredients of their products would be detrimental to their business because these ingredients could be secret recipes. In Spongebob Squarepants, the mythical recipe of the burger is prudently protected because the burger store could lose all its customers if competitors discovered the key to a delicious burger. Demanding resturants to provide the nutritional information risks forcing them to provide their secret ingredients and potentially jeopardizing their business.
Some resturants, such as cake stores and ice cream booths, are not known for providing healthy foods. However, consumers still flock to such places to satisfy their taste buds and reward themselves with a sweet dessert or a greasy burger. Patrons of these stores are unlikely to carefully read nutritional information provided by these stores because they already know they are not buying nutritious foods. Consequently, resturants should not be required to present nutritional information of their products because their consumers might not bother reading them. Even if they took the time to comprehend the information, they might still decide to indulge in the delicious foods. Providing nutritional information does not guarantee that diners will make health-conscious decisions.
Advocates for the mandatory disclosure of nutritional information could argue that the information could help consumers understand their daily intake. However, the daily intake could also be distorted to deceive consumers. For example, resturants could present the amount of sugar in each serving instead of the amount of sugar in each meal, and perfunctory diners are likely to skim over the information and falsely assume that the amount represents the amount of sugar in each meal. This might incenticize them to buy the meal because they believe that their sugar intake would be low. Therefore, the information might not help consumers make healthier choices because the presentation of the information could deceive consumers.
In conclusion, resturants should not be required to present the nutritional information of their products to their customers because competitors might steal their secret ingredients and faithful patrons might not care about this information. More importantly, the mandatory disclosure of information could actually result in resturants providing disinformation or using advantageous graphs to misdirect consumers, thereby causing them to actually make unhealthy choices.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, however, if, so, still, therefore, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.4196629213 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3182.0 2235.4752809 142% => OK
No of words: 554.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74368231047 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85151570047 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02569937427 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404332129964 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 965.7 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0097349097 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.583333333 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.70833333333 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243252168152 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914092837538 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0574773134611 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150042508952 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463845960689 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.31 12.1639044944 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.