Food Prices: An Overview of Current Evidence

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Appendix - Healthy Eating Indicator Shopping Basket

Fruit products in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Apples

Fresh loose eating apples - green or red (not cooking apples)

per kg

Bananas

Fresh loose medium sized

per kg

Grapes (white)

Fresh un-seeded loose

per kg

Oranges

Fresh loose

per kg

Orange Juice

Pure UHT orange juice

1 l

Pineapple

Tinned pineapple in own juice

220 g tin

Frozen berries

Frozen raspberries or frozen berry mixture

454g



Vegetable products in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Onions

Medium sized brown onions loose

per kg

Carrots

General purpose loose carrots

per kg

Broccoli

Loose unprepared broccoli

per kg

Lettuce

Round variety

single loose

Peppers

Common red capsicums

per kg

Tomatoes

Loose standard medium-sized tomatoes.

per kg

Cucumber

single loose

Sweetcorn

Low salt and low sugar tinned sweetcorn

198 g tin

Baked Beans

Ordinary baked beans tinned in tomato sauce.

420 g tin

Peas

Frozen garden peas or petit pois

907 g



Carbohydrate products in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Potatoes

White loose general purpose

per kg

Weetabix

Weetabix wheat cereal only as has a known healthier sodium level.

24 pack

Porridge oats

Plain dry, unsweetened, unflavoured oats

1 kg

Bread rolls

Brown bread rolls 100% wholemeal flour

6-pack

Bread loaf

Medium sized 100% wholemeal flour pre-sliced bread loaf

800 g

Pasta

Dry 100% durum wheat flour spaghetti

500 g

White rice

Long grain normal cook white rice

500 g

Brown rice

Normal cook brown rice

500 g

Oven chips

Oven chips, < 5% fat by cooked weight

907 g



Protein products in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Chicken

Fresh chicken breasts, no skin, no bone

2-pack

Beef

Fresh beef mince lean, ideally < 7% fat.

500 g

Salmon

Fresh salmon fillets

2-pack

Haddock

Fresh haddock fish

2-pack



Meal product in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Ready meal

Birds Eye Lasagne

400 g



Dairy products in the HEISB

Product Name

Product Description

Target size

Semi-skimmed milk

Semi-skimmed milk

1 lt

Skimmed milk

Skimmed milk

1 lt

Yoghurt

Low fat fruit yoghurt

125 g

Spread

Low fat spread. Made from PUFA maximum fat content 41%

500 g

Page updated: Thursday, June 25, 2009