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food or a property of food which is not mandatory in this Code.
            claim requiring nutrition information:
 (a) means:
 (i) a nutrition content claim; or
 (ii) a health claim; and
 (b) does not include:
 (i) a declaration that is required by an application Act; or
 (ii) an endorsement; or
 (iii) a *prescribed beverage gluten free claim.
 dietary fibre means that fraction of the edible part of plants or their extracts, or synthetic analogues that:
 (a) are resistant to digestion and absorption in the small intestine, usually with complete or partial fermentation in the large intestine; and
 (b) promote one or more of the following beneficial physiological effects:
 (i) laxation;
 (ii) reduction in blood cholesterol;
 (iii) modulation of blood glucose;
  and includes:
 (c) polysaccharides or oligosaccharides that have a degree of polymerisation greater than 2; and
 (d) lignins.
            fat, in Standards 1.2.7 and 1.2.8 and Schedules 4 and 11, means total fat.
            monounsaturated fatty acids means the total of cis-monounsaturated fatty acids.
            polyunsaturated fatty acids means the total of polyunsaturated fatty acids with cis-cis-methylene interrupted double bonds.
            saturated fatty acids means the total of fatty acids containing no double bonds.
            sugars, in Standard 1.2.7, Standard 1.2.8 and Schedule 4—means monosaccharides (other than
            D-allulose) and disaccharides. (Elsewhere in the Code it has a different definition).
            trans fatty acids means the total of unsaturated fatty acids where one or more of the double bonds are in the trans configuration.
 unit quantity means:
 (a) for a food consisting of a solid or semi-solid food—100 grams; or
 (b) for a food consisting of a beverage or other liquid food—100 millilitres.

Note 2 In Standard 1.2.7 and Standard 1.2.8:
            fruit means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are present in the typical proportion of the whole fruit (with or without the peel or water); and does not include nuts, spices, herbs, fungi, legumes and seeds.
            vegetable means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are present in the typical proportion of the whole vegetable (with or without the peel or water) and does not include nuts, spices, herbs, fungi, dried legumes (including dried legumes that have been cooked or rehydrated) and seeds.
Division 2 Nutrition information panels
1.2.8—5 When nutrition information panel is required
 (1) For the labelling provisions, the required information on packaged food is a nutrition information panel.
 (2) A nutrition information panel is not required for:
 (a) the following foods, unless a *claim requiring nutrition information is made in relation to the food:
 (i) a *standardised alcoholic beverage;
 (ii) a herb, a spice or a herbal infusion;
 (iii) vinegar or imitation vinegar;
 (iv) iodised salt, reduced sodium salt mixture, salt