Health & Nutrition

It's not enough that the food you put on your table is delicious - it needs to be nutritious, too. We've compiled a number of tips and resources to help you keep you and your family healthy and happy, even while maintaining a busy lifestyle.

Eating Healthy Every Day

Eating Healthy Every Day: Eating healthy isn't a diet - it's a lifestyle. We share some tips to help you eat smart.

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Healthy Children

What children learn about good eating habits and exercise shapes the rest of their lives. We share tips for keeping the next generation healthy.

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Nutritional Information

Want to know what's in chicken? Check below for nutritional information for dark and white meat.

White Meat

Nutritional Breakdown

Dark Meat

Nutritional Breakdown

Fat. Where it’s At.

Fat is not only a part of a healthy diet, it's essential to a healthy body. It supplies energy and helps the body absorb fat-soluble vitamins. But Canadians eat too much fat. On average, they get about 38% of their calories from fat. Health Canada's Nutrition Recommendations for Canadians say it should be closer to 30%.

That's where chicken comes in. Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends eating two to three servings a day from the Meat and Alternative group and suggests that Canadians choose leaner meats and poultry more often. Chicken is the perfect choice. It's lower in fat than most other meats (just 2.1 grams in a serving of roasted chicken breast, skin removed!).


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