Healthy Living
Our Healthy Living range offers great tasting products which have been specially prepared to provide healthier alternatives. This inspiring range includes fresh and frozen ready meals, snacks, deserts and pasta sauces, making it easier to select low fat choices for quick and easy meal and snack solutions. Scotmid stocks a large selection of this healthy range.
A healthy lifestyle is an attractive and accessible choice at Scotmid Co-operative and this is made easier through the Co-operative's Healthy Living range - an exciting array of over 65 products created to provide shoppers with healthier alternatives, including Healthy Living products, Half Fat and Reduced Fat alternatives.
The Co-operative has established tightly defined criteria that all products must meet in order to qualify for the Healthy Living range and this has recently been re-evaluated and made more stringent than ever before. Fat content, calorie content and salt levels in Healthy Living products must comply under new, stricter controls as follows:
- Fat
- All products excluding meat and poultry will contain 3% fat or less and 1.5% saturated fat or less. Less than 10% of the total energy can be derived from saturated fat.
- Fresh and frozen meat and poultry will contain 5% fat or less.
- Salt Levels
- Target for a complete meal: 2.0g
- Target for a lunchtime product: 1.5g
- Target for a meal accompaniment: 0.5g
- Target for a snack: 0.3g
- Target for all sandwiches: 0.875g per 100g
- Calories
- 450 kcal per complete ready meal
- 350 kcal for lunchtime products (i.e. sandwiches, salads, pasta salads)
- 200 kcal for meal accompaniments
- 100 kcal for snacks