All Food Fact pages

A healthy breakfast is the perfect way to start your day. It can provide essential nutrients, sustained energy and many health benefits, from improved focus to weight management. Even with a busy schedule, it’s easy to enjoy a quick and healthy breakfast.

The Glycaemic Index (GI) shows how quickly carbohydrate foods raise blood glucose (blood sugar) after eating. This is useful to know if you have diabetes, pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) as it helps you to manage your blood glucose levels.

We all have good days and bad days and we all have foods we prefer, or like less. But is there a connection between feeling fine and the foods we have eaten? Do some foods make us feel grumpy? Is it possible to plan a diet for a good mood?

This Food Fact Sheet will tell you all about folic acid – which foods are good sources, how much you need, and who should take supplements.

This Fact Sheet will help you to choose snacks that will form a nutritious part of your diet. It will help you avoid snacks that can contribute too many extra calories and additional fat, sugar and salt to your food intake.

Evidence is growing that eating wholegrains regularly as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle helps to keep us healthy. This fact sheet shares ways to increase wholegrain consumption, examples of wholegrains and what benefits they provide.

Packed lunches can be easy, healthy and exciting. These tips can help you make a tasty and nutritious lunch and help you choose options from the main food groups.

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune condition. When someone with coeliac disease eats gluten, it causes the body’s immune system to attack and damage its own tissues. This fact sheet discusses symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of coeliac disease.

Dietary changes can often help irritable bowel syndrome symptoms and sometimes simple changes are all that are needed. This Food Fact Sheet explains that dietary changes can help these symptoms.

This Food Fact Sheet will help you understand how sugar may affect your health and well-being.

This Food Fact Sheet explains the different types of fat we eat, how they affect our health and how much we should be eating.

Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood is too high because your body cannot use it properly.

Cow’s milk allergy (CMA) occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly reacts to proteins found in milk. In the UK, CMA affects 2-3% of babies and young children, with most growing out of it by the age of five. Immediate milk allergy is uncommon in adults.  

Good diabetes control will help you lead a full and active life and prevent other health complications.

If you are autistic, you may have difficulty with communication and social interactions with others. This Fact Sheet looks at the most common dietary problems affecting autistic people and how dietitians can help.

Your milk is unique to your baby and their nutritional needs. This fact sheet provides information about human milk, breastfeeding and where to get advice and support. 

You may have heard that eating foods rich in omega-3 fats could help to keep you healthy. This Food Fact Sheet looks at which foods contain omega-3 fats, how much we need and the benefits for our health.

This Food Fact Sheet will share the suggested portion sizes of typical foods.

There are many different 'tests' available to diagnose food allergy or food intolerance. It can be difficult to know which are reliable or based on science. This fact sheet will examine the tests available and whether they are based on evidence.

Children’s nutritional needs change as they get older, so it is important to be aware of these changes. This Food Fact Sheet will help you ensure your child is eating the right food, whatever age they are.