March into nutrition month with our dietitian approved online nutrition tools!

Online Nutrition Tools The Dietitians of Canada's website has some neat tools to help you do some research for yourself: EATracker helps you get a personal assessment of your daily food and activity choices; Recipe Analyzer helps calculate the nutrients in your favourite recipes and suggests how to make it healthier. Learn about Labels: find the answer to what food labels mean so you can make better choices; and, Let's Make a Meal compares one day of your diet with the recommended servings in Canada's Food Guide.

What does Product of Canada mean?

I remember a few years ago there was an uproar in the news when consumers found out the canned apple juice they were buying in the store that was labelled "Product of Canada" was actually made from an apple concentrate grown in China but assembled and packaged in Canada.

Our labeling laws were amended and passed in December 2008.  Now if Product of Canada appears on a label it means that all major ingredients and labour used to make the food must come from Canada. Made in Canada can be used when a food product is manufactured in Canada or processed in Canada but the ingredients can be domestic, imported or both.