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What is salt often found as on a nutrition panel?
Sodium
True or False? The Health Star Rating enables you to easily compare similar food groups? Eg. 2 breakfast cereals
True
Kids aged 12-13 should be aiming for how many serves of vegetables/legumes per day?
5
True or false? We can have up to 7 discretionary foods per day as part of a healthy diet?
False - we should be aiming for 0-5 depending on our age/gender.
True or False? Nutrition labels must list ALL added allergens and potential allergens contained in the food?
True
How many serves of fruit is recommended per day?
2
Kidney beans and chickpeas would fit into which category on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating?
The ingredients list on a food label should be placed in which order?
Largest weight to smallest weight
1 medium sized banana is equivalent to how many serves of fruit?
1
Name a food that would fit into the discretionary foods section?
Lollies, chocolate, burgers, fries, Gatorade etc.
Name 2 macronutrients that are listed on nutrition labels.
Carbohydrates, Fats and Proteins
Name 3 short term side effects of over-consumption of sugar
Lack of concentration, bloated, headaches, acne and weight gain
When using nutrition labels to compare foods, do you use the per serve column or the per 100g column?
per 100g column
Name the food selection model we looked at in class.
Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
What are the 5 main food groups on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating?
Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, Lean meats and Milk/Dairy
What is the difference between
'best before' and 'use by' on a food package?
'Best-before' dates give you an idea of how long foods will last before they lose quality. 'Use-by' dates means the foods must be consumed before or on that date.
How do food labels assist people with allergies?
Food labels must identify the food source of all major food allergens used to make the food.
You should try choose foods with less than how many grams of fat per 100g?
10g
Name 1 other name for saturated fat that can be found on nutrition labels.
Animal fat/oil, beef fat, butter, chocolate, milk solids, coconut, coconut oil/milk/cream, copha, cream, ghee, dripping, lard, suet, palm oil, sour cream, vegetable shortening.
What is the Heart Foundation tick?
A program aimed to help people make healthier food choices.
What is the purpose of
food labels on packages?
Food labels can provide a wide range of information to help people make food choices. Food labels display information such as use by dates, ingredients, certain allergens, instructions for storage and preparation, and advisory and warning statements.
Name 2 pieces of information that are mandatory to
be placed on food items?
Name of the food, list of ingredients, allergens, use by/best before dates, storage instructions
What is the 'Health Star Rating'?
The Health Star Rating (HSR) system is a front-of-pack labelling scheme developed for use in Australia and New Zealand to ‘provide convenient, relevant and readily understood nutrition information and/or guidance on food packs to assist consumers to make informed food purchases and healthier eating choices’.
Name 2 types of ingredients we don't want to see added in healthy foods to a nutrition label?
Saturated fats, added salt and added sugar
Name 2 other names for sugar that can be found on nutrition labels.
Dextrose, fructose, glucose, golden syrup, honey, maple syrup, sucrose, malt, maltose, lactose, brown sugar, caster sugar, maple syrup, raw sugar, sucrose.