Setting the Table Guidance: Nutritional Technical Working Group Report
Report of the Technical Working Group on the review of nutrient, food and drink standards for children aged 1 up to 5 years.
4. Summary of changes to standards
4.1 Nutrient standards
Key changes to the nutrient standards are:
- One set of standards for children aged 1 up to 5 years, which are based on the age group with the highest nutritional requirements (i.e. 1-2 or 3-4 year olds).
- Standard for energy updated to reflect the SACN Dietary Reference Values for Energy.
- Total fat standard updated to maximum of 35% of energy.
- New standards added for saturated fat, fibre and folate.
- Standard for non-milk extrinsic sugars replaced with free sugars.
- Standards for vitamin D and water removed.
4.2 Food and drink standards
Food group standards have been replaced with more specific food and drink based standards. A comparison of previous and revised standards are summarised in table 1 below.
Previous Standards (8) |
Revised Standards (14) |
|---|---|
Group 1: Bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and other starchy foods Group 2: Fruits and vegetables Group 3: Meat, fish, eggs, beans and other non-dairy sources of protein Group 4: Milk and dairy foods Foods high in fat Foods high in sugar Foods high in salt Drinks |
1. Fruit and vegetables 2. Oily fish 3. Red and red processed meat 4. Yoghurts and fromage frais (including non-dairy alternatives) 5. Sweetened and baked products, puddings and desserts (including dairy and non-dairy alternatives) 6. Breakfast cereals 7. Fried foods 8. Savoury snacks 9. Bread and bread rolls 10. Savoury pastry and pastry products 11. Oils and spreads 12. Salt, other condiments and preserves 13. Confectionery 14. Drinks |
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