Local Man Continues To Be Gaslighted By The Health Star Rating

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A local man has confirmed he no longer understands what the Health Star Rating system wants from him after discovering the oat milk in his fridge carries 1 star while a bottle of Dairy Farmers chocolate milk in the same supermarket is labelled with 4.

Daniel Reeves (34) said the latest incident occurred during a grocery shop while only a month into his new diet. 

The plan was to go for a shop he could feel good about.

Instead, he was sent into a spiral that made him question even the most basic nutritional fundamentals.

"Wait, how is oat milk that much worse for you than full fat high sugar choclate milk?!" he said to himself in the dairy aisle.

Reeves reports checking the label several times to confirm the rating wasn't some sort of printing glitch.

The Health Star Rating, introduced to help Australians make informed decisions about their food, has long confused the nation, often rewarding some of the most processed and artificial foods while punishing basic wholefoods. 

He now describes the system as something that's there simply to confuse him.

"There's absolutely no way that these paddle pops are healthier than these frozen rasberries" he said

While Daniel is well aware he is no expert on nutrition, he is finding it harder and harder to abide by the bizarre criteria of the health stare ratings.