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Healthy Kids Occasional Food Calculator

The Calculator is designed to tell you if a food is considered to be an "occasional" (red) food* for school canteens under the Fresh Tastes @ School Healthy Canteen Strategy

Healthy Kids supports the NSW Government's Fresh Tastes Canteen Menu Planner model for foods sold through NSW school canteens and vending machines.

If your food does not fit into these categories it is not considered to be an 'occasional' (Red) food. All deep fried foods and all confectionery automatically fit in the 'occasional' (red segment).

Choose the category that the food belongs to from the list provided 'Occasional' (red) foods fit into the following categories.
	Hot Food Items
	Savouries, Pastries, Pasta, Pizzas, Oven Baked Potato Products, Dim Sims, Spring Rolls, Fried Rice and Noodles More food included in this category
	Crumbed and Coated Foods (eg patties, ribs, chicken products), Frankfurters, Sausages. More food included in this category
	Snack Foods and Drinks
	Sugar Sweetened Drinks and Ices More food included in this category
	Snack Food Bars and Sweet Biscuits More food included in this category
	Savoury Snack Foods and Biscuits More food included in this category
	Ice Creams, Milk Based Ice Confections and Dairy Desserts More food included in this category
	Cakes, Muffins and Sweet Pastries More food included in this category

If your food does not fit into these categories it is not considered to be an 'occasional' (Red) food. All deep fried foods and all confectionery automatically fit in the 'occasional' (red segment).

Make sure you have the product/s you wish to assess in front of you
	Enter Name and Flavour of Product eg Acme BBQ Corny Bites

Now enter the information from the Nutrition Information Panel (NIP). For values on the Nutrition Information Panel stated as "<" or "less than" please just enter the number alone. For example if the panel shows "<1" enter as 1, if it shows "less than 0.2" enter as 0.2. Enter the values "per 100g" or "per 100mls"
Energy	KJ (NOTE: not kcal)
Saturated Fats	g
Sodium	mg
Fibre	g