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Tool B · Front-of-package

FOP nutrition symbol

Answer four questions and download Health Canada’s “High in” symbol at the right size for your package.

Go to the symbol
1Is your product exempt from the FOP symbol?
Exempt from the symbol
Which products are exempt or prohibited?

Always exempt

  • Shipping container not sold as a single unit to a consumer at retail
  • Available display surface less than 15 cm²
  • Individual portion intended solely to be served by a restaurant or other commercial enterprise with meals or snacks
  • Ready-to-serve multiple-serving product intended only to be served in a commercial or industrial enterprise or an institution
  • Product intended only to be used as an ingredient (in other prepackaged products for retail, or in food preparation by a commercial/industrial enterprise or institution)
  • Milk (whole, partly skimmed, skimmed — cow or goat) or cream in refillable glass containers; flavoured cow's milk in refillable containers
  • Sweetening agent sold as such (e.g., sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses)
  • Salt or seasoning salt with “salt” in its common name, sold as such
  • Fats and oils (Division 9), fish/marine oils, butter, ghee, margarine or similar butter substitutes, sold as such
  • Individual ration for military personnel in operations or exercises
  • Prepackaged fresh single-ingredient coconut (interim policy, 2025-03-06)

Exempt while also exempt from the Nutrition Facts table

  • Beverage with more than 0.5% alcohol
  • Raw single-ingredient meat, meat by-product, poultry meat or poultry by-product — not ground
  • Raw single-ingredient ground meat, meat by-product, poultry meat or poultry by-product
  • Raw single-ingredient fish or seafood
  • Sold only in the retail establishment where it is prepared and processed from its ingredients
  • Sold only at road-side stands, craft shows, flea markets, fairs, farmers' markets or sugar bushes by the person who prepared it
  • Individual serving sold for immediate consumption, not processed to extend durable life
  • Sold only where packaged, labelled with a sticker, available display surface less than 200 cm²
  • Available display surface less than 100 cm²

May not display the symbol at all

  • Product intended solely for infants 6 months or older but less than 1 year
  • Human milk fortifier
  • Human milk substitute (infant formula)
  • Food represented as containing a human milk substitute
  • Formulated liquid diet (as defined in B.24.001)
  • Meal replacement
  • Nutritional supplement
  • Food represented for protein-restricted diets
  • Food represented for low (naming the amino acid) diets
  • Food represented for use in a very low energy diet (as defined in B.24.001)

Fruit and vegetables, milk, eggs, some nuts, oils and fish, and calcium-rich cheese, yogurt, kefir and buttermilk can be exempt for nutrients that occur naturally. Not sure? Have Nexsure review your label.

2Is this product a main dish (a meal)?
Main dish
For example lasagna, a frozen dinner or a pot pie.
3Package shape and front panel size
Shape of the container
4Which nutrients are “High in”?
A nutrient is “high” at 15% DV or more (10% DV if the reference amount is 30 g or 30 mL or less), per serving or reference amount, whichever is greater.

Not sure which nutrients are high? Have Nexsure review your label.