Nutrition Basics
How to read a New Zealand nutrition information panel
What the nutrition information panel on New Zealand food labels must show, why the per-100g column is the one to compare on, and what it doesn't tell you.
Nutrition Basics
Nutrition basics: New Zealand food labels and macronutrients
The basics are where most nutrition confusion starts and where most content skips straight to selling. These pages explain the fundamentals using the official New Zealand and Food Standards guidance, and link every figure so you can check it.
A nutrition information panel is a regulated document with a fixed structure. Once you can read it in the order it was designed to be read, most of what is printed on the front of the pack stops working on you.
Start with how to read a New Zealand nutrition information panel, which goes through the panel column by column and explains which one you can actually use to compare two products. From there, the rules behind a “high protein” claim shows what the front of the pack is allowed to assert, and the claims permitted on a supplement label covers the same ground for products sold as supplements.