Good Food guide to healthy eating

We use GDAs to show how our recipes contribute towards your daily diet. For example, if you're on a low-fat diet, use the fat content shown for each recipe to help you keep to your target daily amount.

Tip:
Remember, simple changes can make a recipe healthier - for example, by removing the skin from chicken after cooking.

If you eat a high-salt dish, balance your intake for the day by cutting the level of salt in other meals, and remember most of the salt you consume is in processed food. Ask your GP for further advice if you're concerned.

Your RDAs

You may also have heard about Recommended Daily Amounts (RDAs). These represent the amount of a vitamin or mineral that most people need to stay healthy.

Understanding our healthy labels

As well as providing nutritional information with our recipes, we use health labels to highlight those recipes which are particularly healthy. The below labels appear on bbcgoodfood.com on relevant recipes and are tagged so will appear in your search.

Low fat:
12g or less per portion

Low calorie (adults):
500 calories or less per main course; 150 calories or less for a dessert.

Low salt:
1.5g or less per portion

Healthy:
Low in saturated fat, with 5g or less per portion; low in salt, with 1.5g or less; and low in sugar with 15g or less.

Gluten-free:
Recipes that are suitbale for a gluten-free diet

Dairy-free:
Recipes that are suitbale for a dairy-free diet

Nut-free:
Recipes that are suitbale for a nut-free diet.

Egg-free:
Recipes that are suitbale for an egg-free diet.

Please note that recipes created for Advertisement features are checked, but not tested, in the Good Food Test Kitchen.
We regret that we are unable to answer medical/nutritional queries.