✨ Food Standards, Nutrition Claims
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 3
18 JANUARY 2013
SCHEDULE 1 (continued)
Conditions for nutrition content claims
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property of food | General claim conditions that must be met | Specific descriptor | Conditions that must be met if using specific descriptor in column 3 |
| Fat | % Free | The food meets the conditions for a nutrition content claim about low fat. | |
| Low | The food contains no more fat than – |
(a) 1.5 g per 100 mL for liquid food; or
(b) 3 g per 100 g for solid food. |
| | | Reduced or Light/Lite | The food contains at least 25% less fat than in the same quantity of reference food. |
| Gluten | | Free | The food must not contain -
(a) detectable gluten; or
(b) oats or their products; or
(c) cereals containing gluten that have been malted, or their products. |
| | | Low | The food contains no more than 20 mg gluten per 100 g of the food. |
| Glycaemic Index | (a) the food meets the NPSC, unless the food is a food standardised by Part 2.9 of the Code; and
(b) the claim or the nutrition information panel under Standard 1.2.8 includes the numerical value of the glycaemic index of the food. | Low | The numerical value of the glycaemic index of the food is 55 or below. |
| | | Medium | The numerical value of the glycaemic index of the food is at least 56 and not exceeding 69. |
| | | High | The numerical value of the glycaemic index of the food is 70 or above. |
| Glycaemic load | The food meets the NPSC, unless the food is a food standardised under Part 2.9 of the Code. | | |
| Lactose | The nutrition information panel indicates the lactose and galactose content. | Free | The food contains no detectable lactose. |
| | | Low | The food contains no more than 2 g of lactose per 100 g of the food. |
| Monounsaturated fatty acids| The food contains, as a proportion of the total fatty acid content -
(a) no more than 28% saturated fatty acids and trans fatty acids; and
(b) no less than 40% monounsaturated fatty acids. | Increased | (a) The food contains at least 25% more monounsaturated fatty acids than in the same quantity of reference food; and
(b) the reference food meets the general claim conditions for a nutrition content claim about monounsaturated fatty acids. |
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