{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/804",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of carbohydrate the word “polyols” shall be substituted for the words “sugar alcohols”;\n(b) after the definition of edible ice there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““fat”, in the context of nutrition labelling, means total lipids, and includes phospholipids;”;\n(c) after the definition of liqueur wine there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““mono-unsaturates” means fatty acids with one cis double bond;\n“nutrient”, for the purposes of these Regulations, means any of the following: protein, carbohydrate, fat, fibre, sodium, any vitamin or mineral listed in Table A or B in Schedule 6 to these Regulations and present in any food in a significant amount as described in the Note to those Tables;\n“nutrition claim” means any statement, suggestion or implication in any labelling, presentation or advertising of a food that that food has particular nutrition properties, but does not include a reference to any quality or quantity of any nutrient where such reference is required by law;\n“nutrition labelling”, in relation to a food (other than a natural mineral water or other water intended for human consumption or any food supplement) means any information appearing on labelling (other than where such appears solely as part of a list of ingredients) and relating to energy value or any nutrient or to energy value and any nutrient, including any information relating to any substance which belongs to, or is a component of, a nutrient;\n“nutrition properties” means either or both of—\n(i) the provision (including provision at a reduced or increased rate), or the lack of provision, of energy,\n(ii) the content (including content in a reduced or increased proportion), or the lack of content, of any nutrient (including any substance which belongs to, or is a component of, a nutrient);\n“polyunsaturates” means fatty acids with cis, cis-methylene interrupted double bonds;”;\n(d) after the definition of presentation there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““protein” means the protein content calculated using the formula: protein = total Kjeldahl nitrogen x 6.25;\n“saturates” means fatty acids without double bond;”;\n(e) after the definition of sparkling wine there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““sugars”, in the context of nutrition labelling, means all monosaccharides and disaccharides present in food, but excludes polyols;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/804/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:36:32.977489+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}