Your Guidance for Applicants pack contains a lot of useful and practical advice. If you still need more help, please contact the healthyliving award team. You can email your question to:
asktheteam@healthylivingaward.co.uk
or phone 0141 226 5261.
Angela / Assessment
Co-ordinator
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Training Guide Bought-in Products When labelling healthyliving choices, bought in products must be given careful consideration. There are a wide range of products that fall under the bought in criteria such as complete ready meals, meat/fish/vegetarian packaged products, cooking sauces, soups, pre packed sandwiches, savoury snacks, confectionary including cereal bars and bakery products. When deciding whether a product can be labelled as a healthyliving choice you must first look at the pack size. There are 2 sets of specifications within the guidance folder that must be checked before labelling products with the apple logo – the first table is for products served in portions weighing less than 100 grams and the second table is for products greater than 100 grams. Example 1: Baked crisps – 37.5 g per bag Look at the nutritional specifications for products of less than 100g. All 5 specifications must be met to allow a product to be healthyliving.
Example 2: Cheese potato crisps – 16g bag
Example 3: Can of Chicken Broth soup – 415g
Example 4: Pre packaged sandwich 150g
Bought-in Yoghurts Bought in yoghurts have their own set of specifications. Yoghurts come in various sizes so please check the weight of your yoghurt pot; the weight will be printed on the label. If the pot weighs less than 100 grams then it must contain no more than 3 grams of fat per 100 grams and 16 grams of sugar per 100 grams. If the pot weighs over 100 grams then check the fat is no more than 3 grams of fat per 100 grams but this time the sugar should not be above 18.8 grams of sugar per pot. The nutrition box may provide the information per pot, but if not then you can use our simple calculation:
Example 2: 200g pot of strawberry yogurt
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