Healthy and Balanced Dish

What Are The Specifications Of 

A Healthy And Balanced Dish?

A healthy food dish sheds light on the different types of food that make up the diet, and shows the proportions you should eat for a healthy and balanced diet.

Getting this balance every day is a good idea, but we may not need it every meal, and it's easy to get balance over long periods like a week. You can try to make as low salt choices as possible.

Eating healthy means eating the right amount of food that provides the energy required. Most people in England are considered either overweight or obese. This means that many people eat more than they need and must lose weight, eat and drink foods at lower calories.

According to a healthy dish, you can eat:

For a lot of vegetables and fruits.

Did you know that we should eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits every day?

Lots of potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and starch-rich foods

Choose whole grain foods as much as possible, or eat potatoes with their crust for fiber.

Some milk and dairy products

Eat low-fat milk and dairy products. These foods are healthy options to help get enough protein and calcium.

All About Healthy and Unhealthy Foods

Some meat, fish, eggs and protein sources that don't contain milk

These foods are important sources of protein, vitamins and mineral salts and form part of a healthy and balanced diet.

Only a small amount of food and drink rich in fat and sugar

Sugar can be reduced by eating less sweets, eating cake and biscuits and drinking drinks containing a little sugar.

Is a healthy dish for me?

A healthy dish is served to most people - whether they are perfectly weighted or overweight, whether they eat meat or are vegetarians and their ethnic origin does not matter.

A healthy dish is not served to children under the age of two because their nutritional needs are different. Children must move on to family food from the age of two to five years, as shown in the healthy dish. Read more about the nutritional needs of infants, children who have begun walking and for young children in infancy: the first few days and the first child's choice of solid foods.

A registered dietitian can be sure of any special dietary requirements or medical needs in terms of the possibility of serving them a healthy dish.