Coeliac Group Session Tool Kit Labelling Activity
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Start by reading the description of the label (for example: ‘Ready Salted Crisps’).
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Before studying the label, what is your first reaction in terms of whether this product
might be gluten free or not?
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Now look at the label in more detail, use the information you have learnt today to work
out whether each product is suitable for you to eat… was your first guess correct?
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Make a note of anything that you would like to discuss in more detail with your
group leader.
Notes
Correct at time of going to print - May 2015
1. Ready Salted Crisps (Walkers)
Label illustration
Ready Salted Potato Crisps
Ingredients: Potatoes, Sunflower Oil (26%),
Rapeseed Oil, Salt.
Allergy Advice
Made in a factory that also handles:
Milk, Wheat, Gluten, Barley, Soya, Celery,
Mustard
Suitable for Vegetarians
3. Cereal Bar (Organix)
Label illustration.
2. Ready Meal (Sainsbury’s own label chicken and ham in cheese sauce
with mashed potato) Label illustration
Our ingredients: Potato, Cows’ Milk, British Chicken Thigh (15%), Single Cream (Cows’ Milk), Leek,
British Ham Hock (8%) (Pork, Salt, Preservative: Sodium Nitrate), Gruyére Cheese (Cows’ Milk),
Cornflour, Butter (Cows’ Milk), Water, Farmhouse Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows’ Milk), Ham Stock
(Concentrated Ham Stock (Pork, Water, Salt), Onion Powder, Sunflower Oil), Mature Cheddar Cheese
4. Fromage
Frais(Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Mustard Flour, Salt,
(Cows’ Milk),
Wholegrain Mustard
Mustard Bran, Pimento), Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Cows’ Milk), Wheat Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Parsley,
Pectin, Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, salt), Sea Salt, Salt, Concentrated
Lemon Juice, White Pepper, Black Pepper.
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Allergy advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
Safety: Although every care has been taken to remove bones, some may remain.
4. Fromage Frais (Yeo-Valley)
Label illustration
Our organic ingredients
Wholegrain oats
48%
Raisins
33%
Sunflower oil
12%
Apple juice concentrate
4%
Raspberry juice concentrate
3%
Total
100%
ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens,
including cereals containing gluten,
see ingredients highlighted in bold.
May contain traces of nuts, soya and
dairy as this food is produced in a
factory that handles nuts, soya and dairy.
INGREDIENTS:
STRAWBERRY: Organic fromage frais (MILK),
organic strawberry purée (5%), organic
sugar, MILK protein, organic maize starch,
natural flavourings, organic concentrated
Lemon juice. RASPBERRY: organic fromage
frais (MILK), organic raspberry purée (5%),
organic sugar, MILK protein, organic maize
starch, natural flavouring, organic
concentrated lemon juice. APRICOT: Organic
fromage frias (MILK), organic apricot purée
(5%), organic sugar, MILK protein, organic
maize strach, natural flavouring, organic
concentrated lemon juice.
Allergy Advice: For allergens, see
ingredients in BOLD. No gluten−containing
ingredients. Suitable for vegetarians.
CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING
LIVE CULTURES: streptococcus thermophilus,
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
5. Houmous Dip (Tesco own label)
Label illustration
A Mediterranean style dip
made with crushed chickpeas
sesame seeds, lemon juice
and garlic.
Ingredients
Cooked Chickpeas (55%), Water,
Tahini Sesame Seed Paste,
Rapeseed Oil, Concentrated Lemon
Juice, Salt, Garlic. Cooked Chickpeas
contain: Water, Chickpeas.
Allergy advice For allergens, see
ingredients in bold
Suitable for vegetarians
6. Probiotic Yogurt (Danone Activia)
Label illustration
INGREDIENTS: Yogurt (whole
milk, milk protein, cream (milk) (1.1%),
live cultures including Bifidobacterium lactis
(Bifidus ActiRegukaris®)), Sugar (9%), Strawberry
(8%), Stabilisers (modified maize starch, pectin, guar
gum), Flavouring, Concentrated carrot juice, Acidity
regulators (citric acid, calcium citrate).
For allergens, see ingredients in blue
7. Chocolate Bar (Galaxy Ripple)
Label illustration
Milk chocolate with a rippled centre • ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, cocoa mass,
lactose, palm fat, whey powder (from milk), milk fat, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, E476), natural vanilla
extract. Milk chocolate contains milk solids 14% minimum and cocoa solids 25% minimum.
Milk chocolate contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter.
Suitable for Vegetarians
8. Ready Meal (Marks and Spencer sausages,
gravy, carrot and swede) Label illustration
INGREDIENTS: Carrot and Swede Mash
(58%) (Potatoes (54%) • Carrots (23%) Swede (17%) • Single Cream (Milk) • Butter
(Milk) • Sea Salt • Ground White Pepper •
Ground Nutmeg • Salt) • Cooked Pork
Sausages (20%) (British Pork (81%) •
Wheatflour contians Gluten (with
Wheatflour, Clacium Carbonate, Iron Niacin,
Thiamin) • Wheat Gluten • Potato Starch - Sea
Salt • Sugar • Ground Spices (Ginger • Black
Pepper • Coriander • Nutmeg) • Sunflower Oil •
Salt • Dried Yeast) • Water • Onions • Carrots •
Roast Chicken Stock (Water • Chicken
Bones • Onions • carrots • Leeks • Garlic •
Parsley • White Peppercorns • Bay Leaves) •
Cornflour • Tomato Purée - Wheatflour
contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium
Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) • Rapeseed
Oil • Beef Gelatine • Sea Salt • Ground
White Pepper.
Sausages filled into casings made from
beef collagen.
9. Ready-made Custard (Ambrosia)
Label illustration
Ingredients: Skimmed Milk, Buttermilk, Sugar, Modified
Starch, Palm Oil, Whey (Milk), Natural Flavouring, Colours
(Curcumin Annatto). Total Milk Content 73%.
Allergy Advice: For allergens, see ingredients in bold.
For allergens see ingredients in bold
10. Oven Chips (McCain Home Chips)
Label illustration
INGREDIENTS
Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Batter (WHEAT Flour (with Calcium, Iron, Niacin,
Thiamin), Modified Starch (Maize, Tapioca), Rice Flour, Salt, Corn Starch,
Natural Colours (Turmeric Extract, Paprika Extract)).
ALLERGY INFORMATION: For allergens, see ingredoents in BOLD
11. Canned vegetable soup (Heinz)
Label illustration
Ingredients
Water, Tomatoes (24%)
Carrots, Potatoes, Pasta
Tubes (Water Durum
Wheat Semolina), Peas
Onions, Swede, Modified
Cornflour, Sugar, Haricot
Beans, Rapeseed Oil,
Wheat Flour (contains
Calcuim Iron, Niacin,
Thiamin), Cornflour, Salt,
Yeast Extracts, Herb
Extracts, Flavouring
VEGETABLES: 28%
Allergens:
see ingredients
12. Pre-packed cooked ham (Tesco own-label)
Label illustration
Sliced, cooked and oak smoked ham
formed from cuts of pork leg meat.
Ingredients Pork, Salt, Sugar, Stabilisers
(Sodium Triphosphate, Sodium Polyphosphate),
Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative
(Sodium Nitrite).
Prepared with 100g raw pork per 100g of
finished product.
Keep refrigerated. Once openned consume
within 2 days and by ‘use by’ date shown.
Use by: see front of pack. Packaged in a
protective atmosphere.