Teacher's notes
Information about nutrition can be
difficult to understand. The food label might tell you that
the yoghurt you are eating contains 2g of sugar per 100g serving
but we might not really understand if this level is high or
low. The guide below can help.
RULE OF THUMB NUTRITION GUIDE:
For foods where you eat the whole pack, like a ready meal
or sandwich, compare the figures below with the figure given
on the pack for ‘per serving’. For foods that you
eat as snacks or foods which you eat in small amounts, such
as biscuits, cheese, margarine and jam, compare the figure
‘per 100g’.
Some typical examples are: 0.5g of
sodium in a can of soup, 5g of fibre in a bowl of baked beans,
5g of fat in a bowl of rice pudding, 10g of saturates in a
bar of chocolate and 38g of fat in a port pie contains.
(Source: Use Your Label - Making sense
of nutrition information, MAFF, 1996)
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Ask children to use The Food Commission's 'Rule of Thumb Nutrition
Guide' to arrange items of packaged food into 'high', 'low' and
‘inbetween’ sugar, salt and fat categories. 
