Healthy Eating

Label reading

Food labels can provide useful information about the foods you eat. Importantly, they provide information on the ingredients the foods are made from and the amount of nutrients the food contains. Understanding the information on a food label helps you to decide how an individual food fits into your daily eating pattern.

All food labels contain:

• Nutritional Information Panel

  This panel shows you the amount of energy (kilojoules), protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars and sodium that are in the product. All panels come in a standard format showing the nutrients in an average serving of the product (for instance, one muffin) and also the nutrients in 100 grams of the product. Serving sizes vary from one product to the next, so the ‘per 100g’ column is useful when you’re comparing different products.

• Ingredient List

  All of the ingredients that are used to make a food or drink are listed in the ingredient list in order from the highest to lowest amount used. The major ingredients in a food are also listed as a percentage in the ingredient list so you can see exactly how much blueberry we use in our blueberry muffins for instance.

• Allergen statement

  Ingredients that people are most commonly allergic to (wheat, milk, eggs, soy, peanuts, other nuts, sesame seeds, fish and shellfish) must be identified on food labels so people who are allergic to these foods can avoid them. Even if products may have only come into contact with these allergens during processing, they still must be declared on food labels for safety reasons. That’s why you may see ‘Made on equipment also used to produce products containing milk’ on our products.

To see the Nutrition Information Panels for all Muffin Break products, click here.