Food labels

The most important job for a food label is to tell you what is in the food, when and where it was made and what has been added to it. This is vital information especially when purchacing packaged sandwhiches and ready made food from supermarkets.

Just because a food is savery doesn't mean that it doesnt contain sugar. many ready meals and tinned foods contain high levels of sugar which will be indicated on the food label.

So how do you read food labels?

• Calories per serving - Energy 245kj/58kcal
• Sugars per serving - Carbohydrate 7.2g of which sugars 6.5g
• Total fat per serving- Fat 1.2g of which saturates 0.2g
• Salt per serving- sodium 0.1g

try to choose foods that have the lowest amount of sugars when compared to carbohydrates. in the example above the sugars contribute 90% of the carbohydrate energy.