Resources: Food Science: Nutrition

This food guide promotes healthy eating and overall nutritional well-being, and support improvements to the Canadian food environment

Create your own food guide

My Food Guide is an interactive tool that will help you personalize the information found in Canada's Food Guide.

Egg Nutrition Center

This site, created by the American Egg Board, provides nutritional information about eggs.

FoodData Central

FoodData Central is an integrated data system that provides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research.

Medline Plus: Nutrition

This reliable health web site offers a collection excellent resources about nutrition

Nutrition and Healthy Eating

A nutrition page from Health Canada

Nutrition Labels

Learn how to use nutrition information to make informed choices about the foods you buy.

Nutrition Lessons

Nutrition talks, exercises, and lessons from TedEd

School Nutrition: Healthy Eating Lessons

Lesson plans and tools from Alberta Health Servers that include background information for teachers and student activities on nutrition and Canada's Food Guide.

Teaching Nutrition

Free teaching resources from the Dairy Farmers of Canada

TED: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight

Find out where sugar is hiding in foods you might not expect, like peanut butter and pasta sauce. What are all of sugar's aliases?