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Front of pack nutrition labelling

Providing front of pack nutritional information remains voluntary, however many food manufacturers choose to display nutritional information on the front of pre-packaged food and drinks.

Front of pack labels allows consumers to:

• Check what the food contains – how much energy, fat, saturates, sugar and salt the food provides, plus how much of their Reference Intake this contributes to;

• Compare foods they buy with other similar foods;

• Choose the foods that best suit their needs.

Each serving of Edam( 30g) contains: of an adult’ s Reference Intake Typical values per 100g: Energy 1325kJ / 320kcal
Energy 400kJ 95kcal
Fat 7.0g
Saturates 4.7g
Sugars 0g
Salt 0.8g
5 % 10 % 24 % 13 %