Reading food labels
Eating well involves choosing a variety of foods. Reading food labels can be helpful way to ensure that the choices you are making during your trip to the supermarket are the healthiest everyday options available.
There are many foods that fit this description but finding them on the store shelves can be difficult.
What should you look for? Fat? Sugar? Salt? All of the above? Where do you start?
There are a couple of simple steps to make this process a bit easier. Before you look too closely at the label look at the food and ask whether the food offers the best choice for you.
These are some downloadable documents to help make this easier.
Fact sheet 1 - Reading food labels
Or for a bit more detail:
Fact sheet 2 - Understanding food labels
Still confused?
Diabetes Tasmania offers a free service to assist with reading food labels. Our Healthy Shopping Tours operate in the north west, north and south of the state each month and focus on improving label reading skills.
Phone 1300 136 588 for more information on how you can attend one of the Tours.
The NHMRC Dietary Guidelines for Australians are based on the best available scientific evidence and provide information about healthy food choices.
