Cheese
Choose: The highest calcium level.
What’s In Your Lunch
Pudding
Choose:
Milk & Alternatives
Pudding with
the highest
“% Daily Value”
of calcium.
Milk and foods made with milk (like yogurt and cheese) are great
sources of calcium, protein, and other bone building nutrients.
Choose:
Products with the highest “% DV” (% Daily Value) of calcium and grams of protein in each “category”
(yogurt, cheese, pudding).
Choose:
White, chocolate, or flavoured
milk (e.g., strawberry, banana)
every day.
The added sugar in chocolate
milk is about the same amount
of sugar that is in half a banana.
Average cost:
“ Milk” as the
first Ingredient.
Yogurt
Milk
Look for:
• Calcium levels in different
yogurt products are
about the same.
Home made:
$0.25 per serving
Pudding cups:
$0.65 per serving
•D
ifferent brands of yogurt
may contain different
amounts of sugar; check
the Nutrition Facts Panel.
NOTE: Every cup of milk has 12 grams
of naturally occurring sugar.
“Shakes” have more sugar!
White Milk
Strawberry Milk
Chocolate
Bar Milk
Shake
*Be sure to compare similar
portions of cheese (e.g., 30 g
to 30 g).
Note: “Trans fat” in dairy products is naturally occurring. It is
artificial trans fat (i.e., hydrogenated vegetable oil) that increases
the risk of heart disease.
*
Misconception:
Yogurt tubes are higher in sugar
and lower in calcium.
Compare the tubes to the other
forms of yogurt. You will find
they are very close in sugar and
calcium content.
In 250 mL:
Calories
Sugar
110
12 g
150
25 g
250
40 g
*Remember to
compare similar
amounts of yogurt
(e.g., 175 g to 175 g).
NOTE:
Just because pudding is in
the grocery cooler does not
mean it is a good
choice!
These taste
great frozen for
a healthy treat.
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March 2009