Healthy Kids School Canteen Association

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

The Healthy Kids SCA 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).

Step One
Choose the category that the food belongs to from the list provided
'Occasional' (red) foods fit into the following categories.
 

Hot Food Items

Savoury pastries, pasta, pizzas, oven backed potato products
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Crumbed & coated foods, frankfurters, sausages.
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Snack Foods and Drinks

Sugar sweetened drinks and ices*
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Snack food bars & sweet biscuits
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Savoury snack foods & biscuits
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Ice creams, milk based ice confections & dairy desserts
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Cakes, muffins & sweet pastries
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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).
Calculator step two
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

Calculator step three

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
 
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