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Understanding food labels

Understanding food labelling

  • Understand just what you’re eating – we explain what the food labels mean
  • Traffic light and GDA labelling explained – but which is best?
  • Probiotic, organic, wholegrain – food jargon explained in plain English

What's in this guide

Do you know what you’re eating?

Unless you know exactly what you’re putting in your mouth, it’s hard to stay healthy.

Labelling made easy

Traffic light labelling is allows shoppers to quickly tell how healthy food products are.

Food jargon buster

Low fat, farm fresh, probiotic… what does it all really mean? Find out with our jargon buster.