Live Webinar: How to read nutrition labels

Food labels can be very confusing and tricky to understand. Often we don’t have the time to spend trying to work out what they mean and how to use them.

However, a few quick tips can make shopping for healthy food a whole lot easier and quicker and can help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. Knowing what nutrition information to look for, can help you make the best choice for your health and avoid unnecessary saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and kilojoules.

Labels on most packaged food must meet strict requirements that include information for people with food allergies, food additive listings and food storage instructions.

While food labels can carry many different types of information, the main things to look at when choosing healthy food are the Nutrition Information Panel and this session will take you through the process of how to read them.