Healthy nutrition

A healthy diet should include a good variety of nutritious foods. These include breads, pastas, fruits and vegetables. Eating breakfast is also an important part of a healthy diet.

Healthy diets contain a variety of foods. In general, we should all eat:

• A wide variety of nutritious foods
• Plenty of breads and cereals (particularly wholegrain), vegetables, legumes (such as chickpeas) and fruit
• Low salt foods, and use salt sparingly
• Small amounts of foods which contain added sugars.