A big part of eating healthily is shopping healthily.  To do that you need to be food label aware.  Always read the nutrition labels on the food you buy so you know what you are putting into your body.

Avoid high sugar content food (4g of sugar is the equivalent of a teaspoon of sugar), avoid highly processed foods and know your marketing phrases!

Chocolate flavour is not the same as chocolate and is highly likely to have more e-numbers and artificial ingredients.

Top tips:

• Buy fresh food – fruit and veg, unprocessed meat.
• Try and avoid processed foods (lots of e-numbers on a label, preservatives and long expiry dates).

• Go low sugar – less than 2g if you can (<2g on a label) over 10g is HIGH so avoid.

• Keep a track on your daily intake – know how much you are eating even those sneaky snacks which do count!

CEMEX has created this poster to give you some pointers about what to look for.  Take a few minutes to become more label savvy to help you shop more healthily.  The poster can be found in the download section of the UK News website CEMEX Know your labels poster (745 downloads)

It’s never been easier to check your food ingredients; download an app to use your phone to scan your food.  A top app is: CHANGE FOR LIFE FOOD SCANNER

Simply put this into your app store search and you can download it to check what’s in your food.