The first 3 images are of the American spaghetti while the last 5 pictures are of the spaghetti I found at the Monoprix in Paris.
While many French goods have protected product labels, this item does not as it is an Italian based company. It also does not display any of the new color coded labeling systems that France has begun to utilize.
There are many differences between the two labels. For example, the Barilla spaghetti has a lot more advertising than the publix brand spaghetti which uses the label space mainly for nutritional information and cooking instructions. Speaking of instructions, the French spaghetti uses diagrams in order to show how the pasta should be cooked while the American spaghetti uses words to describe the cooking instructions. The layout of the ingredients an nutritional information is also displayed differently.
However, there are also many similarities such as how each box displays an enticing picture of cooked spaghetti in order to draw in customers. Both items take the same amount of time to cook (around 8 min) and, they both mainly consist of carbohydrates. Both put a large importance on displaying nutritional information as both labels have a large portion of space taken up by ingredients and nutritional percentages.
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