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Reading a food label properly
Every pack in your Freshkorf order carries a label, and it is worth a proper look before the item lands in your trolley. The label tells you what is actually inside, not just what the front of the pack promises. Once you know where to look, checking a label takes less than a minute and saves you from surprises once you get home.
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Ingredients are always listed from most to least by weight.
On a pack of our Fusilli Dried Pasta or Egg Pappardelle Pasta Nest, durum wheat should sit right at the top. If sugar, salt or oil show up in the first three items on a snack or sauce label, treat that as a clue about how the product is really made.
A food label tells you more than the price. Check the ingredients list first, it is ordered by weight, so the first item is what you are mostly getting. Look at sugar, salt and fat per 100g, not just per serving, so you can compare packs fairly.
Watch for added sugar under other names like glucose syrup or dextrose. A short ingredients list is usually a good sign. Once you know what to look for, picking a pasta sauce or snack takes seconds, not minutes.
Check the ingredients list first. Items are listed by weight, heaviest first, so if sugar or salt is near the top, keep that in mind. The nutrition table tells you more than the front of the pack ever will.
Per 100g figures let you compare two products fairly, even when pack sizes are different. That is the number worth trusting.
Watch out for sneaky names for sugar, like glucose syrup or dextrose. And remember, "low fat" does not always mean low in everything else.
Salt hides easily in savoury pantry items. A jar of our Italian Tomato Passata or a tin of Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce can carry more sodium than you expect, even without an obvious salty taste.
Look for sodium in milligrams on the label, and remember that cured products such as our Sliced Cured Salami Pack and Cured Pork Salami Stick are naturally higher, so balance them with lower sodium meals through the week.
Hidden Sugars
Sugar does not always say sugar on a label. It can appear as sucrose, glucose syrup, dextrose or maltose, often listed separately so the total looks smaller than it really is.
Add up any sugar sounding ingredient to get a truer picture, especially on a Milk Chocolate Wafer Bar or a flavoured drink, where more than one type can appear.
Our Coffee Creamer Powder and Ground Filter Coffee carry little to none, so your morning cup is a safe place to start if you are cutting back.
A label only takes a minute once you know what to look for, and that minute can change what ends up in your basket.
Turn the pack around before you decide, every single time.
