Food labelling - Nutritional claims

Question 1

Nutritional claims

Answer 1

• A nutritional claim is any claim which states, suggests or implies that a food has particular beneficial nutritional properties due to its composition
• EU: nutrition claims are only allowed if they are on the pre-approved list in the Annex of Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006. Example: to claim ‘low fat’, a food must contain no more than 3 g of fat per 100 g for solids or 1.5g of fat per 100 ml for liquids
• A list of the claims on their criteria can be found at:
  http://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/labelling_nutrition/claims_eu