Shouldn’t I be avoiding fat? What is a healthy fat? Which dairy products should I be consuming? We have looked at the Eatwell guide for fats and dairy and you should now know the answer to these questions.
The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet. You do not need to achieve this balance with every meal, but try to get the balance right over a day or even a week.
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Reading food labels
When looking at the ingredients on a product, using the Traffic Light Indicator on food labels can be very helpful.
The colours are as follows:
Some things to be mindful of when checking the product are:
- Ingredients are generally listed in order of the weight in the product
- The highest weight content are the first three ingredients
- If you can't pronounce certain names listed they are usually chemically produced ingredients rather than natural so they are best avoided
- Common names of sugars, fats & salt based ingredients
- Names of added sweeteners
- Hydrogenated fat or trans-fats
- Preservatives and too many E numbers, or those that are known to cause allergies or reactions to humans
- The country or place of origin of the product, and is it what you would expect
- The allergens which are present for food allergy sufferers listed in bold
Are the ingredients included what you would expect?
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