At Sunny D we’re the first soft drink company to include Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) information on the front of our pack. This means you can see how much sugar is in one 200ml glass of Sunny D as a percentage of a child’s daily allowance, making it easier for you to find the right balance for your child.

Guideline Daily Amounts let you know how much of a child’s (5-10 years) daily allowance of calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat is contained in a product.

Our Parents Advisory Group want to make sure mums and dads have as much information as possible about our soft drinks. So at Sunny D we decided to put the sugar GDA information on the front of our pack.

As well as the sugar information on the front of the pack, you’ll find a full breakdown of the GDA for calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat on the side panel. All of the information is for one 200ml serving.

Traffic Light Food Labelling

Sunny D Florida Original now has GDA's and traffic lights on its label, making it easier to find out nutritional information at a glance.

Sunny D Florida Original is the only full sugar drink to have an amber traffic light for sugar. Other full sugar drinks such as Ribena, Fruit Shoot and Capri Sun will have a red traffic light for their sugar content.

The idea behind traffic lights is that you should be consuming more green and less red.

For more information on Traffic light food labelling you can visit the governments website. Click here

Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) help consumers make sense of the nutrition information provided on food labels. They translate the science into consumer friendly information, providing guidelines on pack that help consumers put the nutrition information they read on a food label into the context of their overall diet.

GDAs are guidelines for healthy adults and children about the approximate amount of Calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, total sugars, protein, fibre, salt and sodium required for a healthy diet.

Because people vary in many ways, such as size and activity levels, GDAs cannot be used as targets for individuals. They simply provide a benchmark against which the contribution from macronutrients, fibre, salt and sodium per serving of a food product can be roughly assessed. GDAs are different from Dietary Reference Values.

It is acknowledged that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for an individual to achieve the GDAs for all nutrients in any one day. This is not the purpose of providing this information. The aim is to provide a guide for consumers to assist them in making appropriate dietary choices. For example, they can use them as a basis against which to judge the contribution of fat made by a particular food product to their diet.

(source: IGD March 2006)