Being healthy is something so many of us strive to achieve but it’s not as easy as we’d like to think;
especially when it comes to choosing food. Virtually every food packaging has a label stating its’
calorie, fat, sugar, protein and salt content. However what does it all mean? And do we really need
to pay attention to what it says if we want to be healthy?
Some supermarkets have latched onto people’s confusion over food labelling and use a traffic light
system on their labels. For example, a meal with 10.5g fat saturate is coloured red and labelled
high, 1.5g of salt is coloured orange and labelled medium and 7.5g sugar is coloured green and