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Labelling and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA's)

Your Young’s food pack now contains full nutritional analysis. This includes a nutrition label that has the nutrition value per 100g of seven nutrients plus energy. Salt is also included as the ‘salt equivalent’ of sodium: Although current EU regulations say that only sodium needs to be labelled, Young’s know that UK consumers often want to know worked out by multiplying the sodium value by 2.5.

See the example of a Young’s nutrition label (right).

In addition to this label, Young’s use the GDA labelling system so that you know how much of the four key nutrients and energy is in a portion of your food. It also tells you what percentage of your guided daily intake (if you are a man or a woman) is in that portion. So, for example, for the Young’s Mediterranean Fish Gratin, there is 10g of fat in a portion. Now the GDA for total fat for men is 95g and for women it is 70g (see table below). So 10g is 14% of a woman’s total fat intake and only 11% of a man’s total fat intake.

Explaining GDAs further
You will find that an increasing number of food labels carry ‘Guideline Daily Amount’ (GDA) nutrition information. These figures are a guide to how much of certain nutrient you should be having each day and they’re based on government recommended figures. Most food labels also tell you how much of certain key nutrients are in a serving (or portion) of the food. By having the GDA alongside the amount of nutrient in the food you can compare what is in the food to your guideline amount. Many labels, including Young’s, now also do this comparison for you as a percentage figure.

By using GDAs, you can easily tell which foods are particularly high in certain nutrients and the information can help you track your total intake of these nutrients over the day. By using the percentages you can also compare two products, for example, if you are watching your salt intake, you may want to choose the ready meal with a lower % salt in it as opposed to the one with 30 or 40% of GDA. But if you really fancy a meal with a higher % of your salt intake for the day, you may want to look at labels on other foods you consume,including snacks,so that you can make sure you do not have too much salt during the rest of the day.