Guideline Daily Amounts - Helping consumers make sense of nutritional information on food labels

Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) are guidelines for healthy adults and children about the approximate amount of Calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, total sugars, protein, fibre, salt and sodium required for a healthy diet.

In 1995 IGD established a Nutrition Labelling Group, involving food and drink manufacturers, nutritionists, retailers and other industry organisations. The group published Guideline Daily Amounts in 1998 as voluntary back-of-pack nutrition labelling guidelines.
 

Who is using GDAs?

GDAs have now been extensively implemented by food manufacturers and retailers across the UK, and their use is extending to other European countries.

According to a CIAA survey carried out in 2008 some 1,030 brands, including 80% of all soft drinks and branded breakfast cereals, will use GDA labelling by the end of 2008. Of the 2,026 food and drink manufacturers surveyed across the EU, 44% are labelling their products with GDAs.
 

About GDAs

What are Guideline Daily Amounts?
GDAs for Adults
GDAs for Children

More Information

IGD and Guideline Daily Amounts