Nutrition and Healthy Eating

What are Health Check Foods?

Health Check is a program that has been made by the Heart and Stroke foundation and is designed to identify foods that can be part of a healthy diet. All the food labeled as healthy had to meet nutrient criteria.

Health Check is a program that has been made by the Heart and Stroke foundation and is designed to identify foods that can be part of a healthy diet.

All the food labeled as healthy had to meet nutrient criteria based on Canada's Food Guide and Health Canada's Heart Health Claims.

The food is evaluated by the Foundation's dietitians, once the product passes the evaluation it is then identified with a Health Check symbol along with a description of why it is part of a healthy diet.

Each participating product is evaluated on the basis of total fat, sodium, saturated fat, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

The criteria is made by nutrition experts from across the country and the food companies are not involved in setting the criteria for the Health Check program.

Health Check is not a diet or eating plan. It is simply a way of identifying foods that can be part of a healthy diet based on Canada's Food Guide.

Look for the health check logo next time you go grocery shopping.

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