Contains Nonbinding Recommendations
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PRODUCT CATEGORY
REFERENCE
AMOUNT
LABEL STATEMENT
EXAMPLES OF PRODUCTS
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Minor main entree sauces (e.g.,
pizza sauce, pesto sauce, Alfredo
sauce), other sauces used as
toppings (e.g., gravy, white
sauce, cheese sauce), cocktail
sauce
1/4 cup
1/4 cup (_ g); 1/4 cup (60 mL)
Sauces customarily used for main entrees that are thicker in consistency and/or used in
smaller quantities than the sauces included in the major main entree sauce. Sauces in
this category include pizza sauce, enchilada sauce, pesto sauce, Alfredo sauce; gravy,
white sauce, cheese sauce, and other similar sauces used as toppings; and cocktail
sauce.
Major condiments, e.g., catsup,
steak sauce, soy sauce, vinegar,
teriyaki sauce, marinades
1 tbsp
1 tbsp (_ g); 1 tbsp (15 mL)
Condiments that are customarily used in a large quantity (e.g., about one tablespoon).
Catsup, hot dog chili sauce, steak sauce, taco sauce, horseradish sauce, soy sauce,
vinegar, teriyaki sauce, all marinades, and fish sauce.
Minor condiments, e.g.,
horseradish, hot sauces, mustards,
Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp
1 tsp (_g); 1 tsp (5 mL)
Condiments that are customarily used in a small quantity (e.g., about one teaspoon).
Horseradish (not horseradish sauce), hot sauce, mustard (not mustard sauce), cooked or
canned plum sauce (e.g., umeboshi), and Worcestershire sauce.
NOTE: Mustard sauce belongs to the “Barbecue sauce, hollandaise sauce, tartar sauce,
tomato chili sauce, other sauces for dipping (e.g., mustard sauce, sweet and sour sauce),
all dips (e.g., bean dips, dairy-based dips, salsa)” product category. Horseradish sauce
belongs to the “Major condiments, e.g., catsup, steak sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, teriyaki
sauce, marinades” product category.
SNACKS:
All varieties, chips, pretzels,
popcorn, extruded snacks, fruit
and vegetable-based snacks (e.g.,
fruit chips), grain-based snack
mixes
30 g
_ cup (_ g) for small pieces
(e.g., popcorn); _piece(s) (_g)
for large pieces (e.g., large
pretzels; pressed dried fruit
sheet); 1 oz (28g/visual unit of
measure) for bulk products
(e.g., potato chips)
Salty snacks such as potato chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, other starch-based
extruded snacks; popped and unpopped popcorns, sweetened and unsweetened, flavored
and unflavored, with or without nuts; fruit-based snacks (e.g., banana chips, apple
chips, dehydrated fruits, dehydrated fruits leather-type, pressed fruit sheets such as fruit
leather-type products); dehydrated vegetable chips, veggie crisps; and other grain-based
snack mixes (e.g., multigrain mixture with nuts and/or fruits, flavored or unflavored
puffed rice snack mix).