Label “Alto en grasa saturada, sal, …” should there also be Alta?¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»?When should the subjunctive be used after “mientras”?When should I use 'al'?Should I use “ser” or “estar” to translate “The wine cellar should be dark and dry”?When should one use “para” for the English word “to”?Should I use subjuntive after 'aunque'?Why there is an 'el' before the title in Spanish?Should I use “los son” or just “son” for “they are”?
To which airspace does the border of two adjacent airspaces belong to?
Is it possible to observe space debris with Binoculars?
Draw the ☣ (Biohazard Symbol)
What are the canonical definitions of vitarka-vicara in the Tripitaka or related literature
How were the names on the memorial stones in Avengers: Endgame chosen, out-of-universe?
Shoes for commuting
Round away from zero
Why does the UK Prime Minister need the permission of Parliament to call a general election?
'Hard work never hurt anyone' Why not 'hurts'?
Why did Boris Johnson call for new elections?
Default argument for a functor in a templated parameter
Tiny image scraper for xkcd.com
Why there are construction cranes on apparently completed buildings in New York?
Entering the US with dual citizenship but US passport is long expired?
My Friend James
Undefined Hamiltonian for this particular Lagrangian
MOSFET broke after attaching capacitor bank
Why don't they build airplanes from 3D printer plastic?
What would a biological creature need in order to see into the future?
Professor refuses to write a recommendation letter to students who haven't written a research paper with him
'This one' as a pronoun
Mute single speaker?
How do I make my fill-in-the-blank exercise more obvious?
A Meal fit for a King
Label “Alto en grasa saturada, sal, …” should there also be Alta?
¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»?When should the subjunctive be used after “mientras”?When should I use 'al'?Should I use “ser” or “estar” to translate “The wine cellar should be dark and dry”?When should one use “para” for the English word “to”?Should I use subjuntive after 'aunque'?Why there is an 'el' before the title in Spanish?Should I use “los son” or just “son” for “they are”?
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0;
I have just come across the labels used in Chile to signal to the consumer that products may contain high levels of various things like saturated fats, sodium, sugars and so on. Looking on Google images I find lots of images of the labels but it is always alto. But if it is on a food substance which is feminine should there not be a parallel set of labels Alta en ...?
Note I have seen the question ¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»? about alto as an interjection meaning stop but that does not seem to fit here where I am sure it means high.
Just in case it is the slightest relevance I am reviewing an article about the effect of the law which introduced them but my question here is pure curiosity.
gramática concordancia-gramatical
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
add a comment |
I have just come across the labels used in Chile to signal to the consumer that products may contain high levels of various things like saturated fats, sodium, sugars and so on. Looking on Google images I find lots of images of the labels but it is always alto. But if it is on a food substance which is feminine should there not be a parallel set of labels Alta en ...?
Note I have seen the question ¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»? about alto as an interjection meaning stop but that does not seem to fit here where I am sure it means high.
Just in case it is the slightest relevance I am reviewing an article about the effect of the law which introduced them but my question here is pure curiosity.
gramática concordancia-gramatical
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
add a comment |
I have just come across the labels used in Chile to signal to the consumer that products may contain high levels of various things like saturated fats, sodium, sugars and so on. Looking on Google images I find lots of images of the labels but it is always alto. But if it is on a food substance which is feminine should there not be a parallel set of labels Alta en ...?
Note I have seen the question ¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»? about alto as an interjection meaning stop but that does not seem to fit here where I am sure it means high.
Just in case it is the slightest relevance I am reviewing an article about the effect of the law which introduced them but my question here is pure curiosity.
gramática concordancia-gramatical
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
I have just come across the labels used in Chile to signal to the consumer that products may contain high levels of various things like saturated fats, sodium, sugars and so on. Looking on Google images I find lots of images of the labels but it is always alto. But if it is on a food substance which is feminine should there not be a parallel set of labels Alta en ...?
Note I have seen the question ¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»? about alto as an interjection meaning stop but that does not seem to fit here where I am sure it means high.
Just in case it is the slightest relevance I am reviewing an article about the effect of the law which introduced them but my question here is pure curiosity.
gramática concordancia-gramatical
gramática concordancia-gramatical
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
asked 9 hours ago
mdeweymdewey
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
2,4422 gold badges8 silver badges25 bronze badges
add a comment |
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
"alto" is an adjective here indicating, as you said, an elevated level or quantity. There may be, as I see it, two reasons why the masculine gender is used:
To indicate neutrality (the thing referred to may be masculine or feminine in gender)
To agree with the tacit noun "contenido" (contents) or perhaps "producto".
It goes without saying that labels need to be kept short so writing something like "(Producto con) Alto contenido de grasas saturadas" would take up unnecessary space compared with "Alto en grasas saturadas".
Additionally, the mentioned labels are thus prescribed by food regulations.
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function()
var channelOptions =
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "353"
;
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
createEditor();
);
else
createEditor();
);
function createEditor()
StackExchange.prepareEditor(
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader:
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
,
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
);
);
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fspanish.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f31373%2flabel-alto-en-grasa-saturada-sal-should-there-also-be-alta%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
"alto" is an adjective here indicating, as you said, an elevated level or quantity. There may be, as I see it, two reasons why the masculine gender is used:
To indicate neutrality (the thing referred to may be masculine or feminine in gender)
To agree with the tacit noun "contenido" (contents) or perhaps "producto".
It goes without saying that labels need to be kept short so writing something like "(Producto con) Alto contenido de grasas saturadas" would take up unnecessary space compared with "Alto en grasas saturadas".
Additionally, the mentioned labels are thus prescribed by food regulations.
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
add a comment |
"alto" is an adjective here indicating, as you said, an elevated level or quantity. There may be, as I see it, two reasons why the masculine gender is used:
To indicate neutrality (the thing referred to may be masculine or feminine in gender)
To agree with the tacit noun "contenido" (contents) or perhaps "producto".
It goes without saying that labels need to be kept short so writing something like "(Producto con) Alto contenido de grasas saturadas" would take up unnecessary space compared with "Alto en grasas saturadas".
Additionally, the mentioned labels are thus prescribed by food regulations.
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
add a comment |
"alto" is an adjective here indicating, as you said, an elevated level or quantity. There may be, as I see it, two reasons why the masculine gender is used:
To indicate neutrality (the thing referred to may be masculine or feminine in gender)
To agree with the tacit noun "contenido" (contents) or perhaps "producto".
It goes without saying that labels need to be kept short so writing something like "(Producto con) Alto contenido de grasas saturadas" would take up unnecessary space compared with "Alto en grasas saturadas".
Additionally, the mentioned labels are thus prescribed by food regulations.
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
"alto" is an adjective here indicating, as you said, an elevated level or quantity. There may be, as I see it, two reasons why the masculine gender is used:
To indicate neutrality (the thing referred to may be masculine or feminine in gender)
To agree with the tacit noun "contenido" (contents) or perhaps "producto".
It goes without saying that labels need to be kept short so writing something like "(Producto con) Alto contenido de grasas saturadas" would take up unnecessary space compared with "Alto en grasas saturadas".
Additionally, the mentioned labels are thus prescribed by food regulations.
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
edited 7 hours ago
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
answered 8 hours ago
GustavsonGustavson
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
10.8k1 gold badge9 silver badges34 bronze badges
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
add a comment |
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
I have always understood this usage to tacitly include "producto", as you set forth in point 2. Excellent answer.
– Josh K
40 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
@JoshK I`ve been thinking that "alimento" could also be the tacit word. Some might argue that in that case feminine "bebida" would be left out, but I think "alimento" is more generic.
– Gustavson
14 mins ago
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Spanish Language Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fspanish.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f31373%2flabel-alto-en-grasa-saturada-sal-should-there-also-be-alta%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
