Your Guide to Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA's)
- How much sugar, fat, saturated fat and salt, plus the number of calories in each serving
- plus the percentage per serving of the guideline daily amount for each nutrient
This is our way of giving you all the information you need to make healthier choices for a balanced diet.
Here are our 'front of pack' labels and what they mean
Image to show how calories, sugar, fat, saturated fat and salt are labelled on packs.
GDAs are a guide to the total amount of calories, sugar, fat, saturated fat and salt a typical adult should be eating in a day. Showing percentages of GDAs on our packs will enable you to pick and mix your groceries, so your family eats a balanced diet with more of the healthier stuff, while keeping tabs on those naughty-but-nice treats.
The GDAs given are for a typical adult. If you have a particularly active lifestyle, your personal GDA may be higher, or it may be lower, if you are less active. Kids have different requirements.
Our policy on healthy food
At Tesco, we are constantly striving to make our products better for you. The amounts of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt that are contained in our foods are the minimum amounts possible without affecting safety or quality.
Some foods wouldn't be what they are without fat, sugar or salt: cheese or cured meats, for example. However, with these foods we still make small reductions where possible, and this can make an important difference to health.
Some additives are essential in making product ingredients safe. We try to limit additives where we can, and swap them for more natural alternatives where these are available (eg. using lemon juice to regulate acidity in yogurts). In some cases though, additives are essential in order to make foods available.
