Table 3.
Calculating plant or animal food group content using the label-based approach
| Product name | Matching commercial product* | Ingredients as per label | Ingredient amount as per label (%) |
Input status† | Applicable food group for ingoing ingredient | Food group serving/100 g of ingoing ingredient‡ | Unique food group(s) applicable to product§ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast cereal, mixed grain (wheat, corn, rice and oat), flakes and clusters, honey and macadamias, added vitamins B1, B2, B3, E and folate, Ca and Fe | Sanitarium Lite ‘n’ tasty Macadamia and Honey with Oat Clusters|| | Cereals [wheat, oats (10 %), whole wheat flour), corn, puffed wheat, wheat bran, rice] | 69 % | Classified | – | – | – |
| Sugar | 6–10 % | Classified | – | – | – | ||
| Macadamia nuts | 6 % | Classified | – | – | – | ||
| Maltodextrin | 2–6 % | N/A | – | – | – | ||
| Honey | 2 % | Unclassified | Miscellaneous animal products | 100 | 2 | ||
| Salt¶ | 0·74 % | N/A | – | – | – | ||
| Barley malt extract | <0·74 % | N/A | – | – | – | ||
| Vitamins | <0·74 % | N/A | – | – | – | ||
| Minerals | <0·74 % | N/A | – | – | – |
Located using Food Standards Australia New Zealand AUSNUT 2011–2013 Food Details file(11).
Classified = Ingredient has already assigned a classification as per the selected food group serves from the ADG database; Unclassified = Ingredient that has not yet been classified. Only unclassified ingredients were updated when using the label-based approach.
Using recipe approach for matching ingredients within ADG Database(7).
Already assigned food group servings for classified ingredients were used. For unclassified ingredients, total food group(s) serving/100 g for product = ingredient amount (%) × food group serving/100 g of ingoing ingredient. The sum of food serving/100 g for each unique food group.
Sanitarium Health Food Co., Berkeley Vale, NSW.
Based on 295 mg Na/100 g product (food label data).