
Food labelling
Across Latin America, pre-packaged food and drinks manufactured in the different countries will display labels on pack to help you...
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Healthy eating is about consuming the right amount of food for your energy needs and the right balance of foods to make sure your body gets all the nutrients it needs.
Across Latin America, food and nutrition guidelines have been developed by public health authorities to promote a healthy balanced diet, encourage regular physical activity and consider cultural and dietary factors. Many of these have an illustrative summary of the main food groups and their recommended proportions for a healthy diet to help you see how you can get the balance of energy and nutrients, and how foods can often sit together in the same group or can be swapped. It’s appreciated you may not be able to achieve the balance shown with every meal, but the principle is to try and get the balance over a day or even a week. These guidelines tend to be based on an average calorie intake of 2000Kcal for adult females and 2500 Kcals for adult males and includes all food and drinks.
The country guidelines across the region typically have very similar principles in terms of guidance, such as:
For more detailed advice on diet and lifestyle, please visit below guidelines from across the region:
Argentina | Ministry of Health |
Bolivia | Ministry of Health |
Brazil | Ministry of Health |
Chile | Ministry of Health |
Columbia | Ministry of Health |
Costa Rica | Ministry of Health |
Cuba | Ministry of Health |
Dominican Republic | Ministry of Public Health |
Ecuador | Ministry of Public Health |
El Salvador | Ministry of Health / Pan American Health Organisation |
Guatemala | Ministry of Health |
Mexico | Ministry of Health |
Nicaragua | Ministry of Health |
Panamá | Ministry of Health |
Paraguay | Ministry of Health |
Perú | Ministry of Health |
Puerto Rico | USDA / US Department of Health / Food and Nutrition Commission for Puerto Rico Food & Drink Commission |
Uruguay | Ministry of Social Development |
Venezuela | Ministry of Health |