What's healthier than food with one heart foundation tick? Food with two ticks, of course.
The New Zealand Heart Foundation is introducing a new "two tick" logo to help shoppers pick the core foods needed for a healthy diet, 21 years after the foundation released its recognisable single tick.
Foods will have to reach stricter criteria to get two ticks, and by the end of the year there should be 74 products on supermarket shelves bearing the new logo.
Products with two ticks are foods Kiwis should be eating daily, and the change has been made in response to feedback from people wanting to easily identify foods that make up a healthy diet, tick program manager Deb Sue says.
Two-tick foods will include fruit and vegetables, wholegrain breads and cereals, low-fat milk products, legumes, lean meat, poultry and seafood.
More than 1100 products carry the single tick logo, and Otago University research shows Kiwis would gain an average of 0.7kg a year without the tick.
"We're confident tick and two ticks will continue to help Kiwi consumers to make healthier food choices for them and their families," Ms Sue said.
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