Introduction  
  What is food?  
  What happens to the food we eat?  
Our nutrient needs  
  Energy balance  
  Nutritional status  
  Laws & labels
  Additives & colours  
  Toxicity in food  
  Processing food  
  Stability of food nutrients  
  Storage life of foods  
  Food- associated health problems  

- Figure 23 -
LOW-JOULE FOODS (LOW ENERGY)

Figure 23 (an image map)

Legend:
1 For the term ' Low Joule' to be permitted on the label, a food must have a significant reduction in energy compared with its normal counterpart.
2 All foods that are artificially sweetened must state the name(s) of the artificial sweetener(s).
3 All low-joule foods must include the amount of energy (kilojoules) in 100 grams or 100 millilitres (1 millilitre is equal to about 1 gram) of the food.
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Food Facts
- Food Law
- Labelling and the law
- Ingredent labelling
- Nutrition labelling
- Date-marking of food
- What do the different forms of date-marking mean?
- Special purpose foods
Figures:
22: Infomation on a food label
23:Low-joule foods (low energy)
24: Carbohydrate- modified foods
25: Foods containing no added sugar
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