✨ Nutrition content claims
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 50 — 8 MAY 2015
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 |
| Reduced or Light/Lite | The food contains at least 25% less sugars than in the same amount of *reference food. | ||
| No added | (a) The food contains no added sugars*, honey, malt, or malt extracts; and |
(b) the food contains no added concentrated fruit juice or deionised fruit juice, unless the food is any of the following:
(i) a brewed soft drink;
(ii) an electrolyte drink;
(iii) an electrolyte drink base;
(iv) juice blend;
(v) a formulated beverage;
(vi) fruit juice;
(vii) fruit drink;
(viii) vegetable juice;
(ix) mineral water or spring water;
(x) a non-alcoholic beverage. |
| | | Unsweetened | (a) The food meets the conditions for a nutrition content claim about no added sugar; and
(b) the food contains no intense sweeteners, sorbitol, mannitol, glycerol, xylitol, isomalt, maltitol syrup or lactitol. |
| Trans fatty acids | | Free | The food contains no detectable trans fatty acids, and contains:
(a) no more than:
(i) 0.75 g saturated fatty acids/100 mL of liquid food; or
(ii) 1.5 g saturated fatty acids/100 g of solid food; or
(b) no more than 28% saturated fatty acids as a proportion of the total fatty acid content. |
| | | Reduced or Light/Lite | The food contains:
(a) at least 25% less trans fatty acids than in the same amount of reference food, and
(b) no more *saturated fatty acids than in the same amount of reference food. |
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