Table 2 Fijian selected focus foods
Healthy foods | Less healthy foods | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Focus food category | Food product | Focus food category | Food product |
Fresh Fruits | Citrus Fresh apples Fresh grapes | Edible oils and spreads | Palm Oil Corn Oil Hydrogenated fats Margarine Butter |
Fresh vegetables | Fresh tomatoes Garlic Onion Leeks and other alliaceous vegetables Cauliflowers and broccoli Other cabbages and cauliflowers Cabbage lettuce Other lettuce, other vegetables Carrots and turnips Potatoes Celery (Beetroot, Radish) | Selected meat products | Chicken nuggets/patties Beef patties Canned foods (excluding fish) |
Pulses, nuts and seeds | Dried leguminous vegetables, split, lentils, chickpeas and kidney beans | High processed dairy products | Processed cheese Fruit based/flavoured yoghurt Ice-cream and edible ices |
Staple whole-grain cereals | Rice (brown) Rolled oats; oat meal Healthy breakfast cereals | Energy-dense beverages | Cordial juices (e.g. Cordial concentrate, tang, vita fresh powder, soft drink concentrate, Just Juice, Fruit drinks, Fruitace, Nutri-C) Sugar-sweetened, carbonated drinks Electrolyte drinks (e.g. Powerade, Gatorade, Red Bull, Mother, V-Drink) |
Sugar & other caloric sweeteners | Raw sugar/White Sugar/Refined/Manufactured, Sugar sachets, icing sugar, caster sugar | ||
Savoury ready to eat snacks & meals | Snack packs, corn chips, potato chips etc. Noodles (Flavoured, Instant)Confectionary | ||
Sweet snacks | Sweet biscuits | ||
Sweet packaged breakfast cereals | Highly processed & sugar sweetened (Coco Pops, Choco Puffs, Fruit flavoured, milo ball, fruit loops etc.) | ||
Whole-grain cereal | White rice | ||