Smart Shopping

With so many different choices on offer and numerous labels and claims, choosing foods that are truly a healthier choice can be difficult. 

The Tick is the smart shopper’s solution to quickly making healthier choices at the supermarket. Download a list of Tick products ready for the shops.

While we encourage shoppers to read food labels; sometimes it isn’t practical for every single item you put in your trolley. The Tick allows shoppers to quickly and easily spot healthier options on the supermarket shelves. This saves precious time and means we don’t have to be nutrition experts to make healthier choices.

Tick foods
All foods with the Tick must have been independently tested to ensure they meet our strict nutrition standards, no exceptions. Find out more Tick facts here.

With more than 1,300 different foods carrying the Tick across many different food types, there are plenty of healthier alternatives to the foods you eat every day.  They’re healthier because Tick foods are lower in saturated fat, salt, and kilojoules but they also contain plenty of the good stuff like fibre, calcium, wholegrains and vegetables.

Tick approved foods generally fall into 3 groups:

Fresh foods such as fruit and vegetables, eggs, plain nuts and seeds, and lean meat are all important for a healthy, balanced diet. The Tick on these foods reminds us to regularly include them in our shopping.  All fresh fruit and vegetables automatically qualify for the Tick even though they might not carry the Tick logo.

Everyday foods such as bread, low fat milk, pasta, rice, breakfast cereal, canned fish and many others; are the kinds of foods we eat most (if not all) days. Because we eat these foods so often, it is important to make healthier choices; an easy way to do this is to choose those with the Tick.

Occasional foods should be precisely that. Most of us like to indulge from time to time, so we make food companies work hard to make these foods a healthier choice before they can earn the Tick. So although your favourite pie may have the Tick, we still recommend you consider them occasional foods and not an everyday part of your diet.

Find out more about healthy eating here.

Making affordable food healthier
We are committed to making affordable food healthier for all Australians. Recently, ALDI became the first supermarket in Australia to earn the Tick by improving the nutrition of a range of their exclusive brands. Find out more here.

Tick shopping list: download a list of Tick products ready for the shops.