Canada's Food Guide
These three categories make up the three food groupings from the Canadian Food Guide.
What are vegetables and fruits, protein and whole grains?
The part of the food label that lists all ingredients in order from larger amount to smaller amount.
What is the ingredients list?
Chester Cheeto, Tucan Sam, Tony the Tiger, Pilsbury Dough Boy are examples of this marketing technique.
What are Brand Characters?
They are an excellent source of fibre, vitamins and minerals and can be eaten fresh, frozen of canned.
What are fruits and Vegetables?
How can we use food labels to make healthy choices with food?
To compare amounts of ingredients that are suggested should limit (salt, sugar, saturated fats).
Know what's in your food
Choose products with nutrients that you want
Making one product look better by saying negative things about a competitor is how advertisers use this technique.
What is name-calling?
eggs, fish, beans, chicken, nuts and seeds are all examples of foods from this category on the Canadian Food Guide.
What is protein?
The way to find out how much of your daily intake of certain nutrients (like salt, fibre, vitamins) is in a serving of food.
What is the Daily Value % (%DV)?
up to, reduces, fights, helps, better, more are examples of this marketing technique.
What are Weasel Words?
salt (sodium), sugars, saturated fats and processed meats are examples of these
What are foods we should limit?
5% Daily Value
What is a DV % for a little amount of a nutrient?
What is marketing and advertisements?
These are four suggestions from the Canadian Food Guide for healthy eating habits.
What are avoiding screens when eating, cooking more often, eating meals with others and being mindful of your eating habits?
15% Daily Value
What is a %DV for a lot of a nutrient?
How can we handle the impacts on food choices through messaging from advertisements and media?
We can remember that messages through media are always created by someone to tell us something specific.
Some of it is not always true and we can use food labels to determine the nutrients of a food marketed to us.