Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating stresses the importance of choosing a variety of foods from all four food groups. Healthy eating also means limiting nutrients such as saturated fat, trans fat and sodium and including adequate amounts of nutrients such as iron. The label will now provide information on an expanded list of nutrients. These are nutrients that consumers and health professionals consider important to the health of Canadians. The food label provides other valuable information to support healthy eating.
Claims are predominantly single nutrient messages.
Nutrition Facts gives a comprehensive picture of the nutritional characteristics of the food and provides a context for the single nutrient messages. Whether consumers are striving to lower their fat intake, aiming for more calcium or simply wanting to see how a food fits into their healthy eating plan, the food label can help. Together Nutrition Facts and nutrition claims will provide Canadians with improved information to assist them in making personal food choices.