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Assignment Team: Canadian food substitutes, food additives, and food regulations

Due date:

July 20, 5:30 pm (team component)

July 22, 5:30 pm (individual component, to be submitted on Canvas)

This is where you will report research you did on a food your team like and it's alternative (fat free, reduced sugar, etc). This enables us to create a database on ingredients used in our food systems, allowing us to make informed food choices.

Here are some steps and resources to help you create your page and have it appear on UBC wiki, so that it can be easily accessed by your peers and your instructor, and eventually, the UBC community.

1. Login to the UBC Wiki

Click the CWL button on the top of the page and login from there.

2. Create Your Assignment Page

Once your team have decided what product and its alternative to investigate, you may create your assignment page here.

Again, make sure you are already logged in to the UBC Wiki before the next step.

  • Pick your assignment title:
    • Suggestion: use BrandName_ProductName_Detail(IfAny)
    • For example: Kraft_Yoghurt_Peach.
  • Just add the title of your project to the box below and click on the create page button
  • On the edit screen that loads, add some preliminary details to the edit screen and hit SAVE at the top or bottom of the page
  • You may start writing your report here

4. Labels (2 points): Provide detailed description of the information found on the labels Carbonated water, Sugar glucose-fructose-, caramel colour, phosphoric acid, natural flavour, caffeine Bilingual labelling, country of origin, list of ingredients, nutritional facts table


2.Indicate whether the information complies with the regulatory requirements as outlined in Lesson 04.


5. Personal Choice (3 points) - Please submit your individual component here: Assignment #2 - Individual component

4. Begin Writing!

Your new wiki page will be created with some suggested headings and sections.

Assignment Guidelines

Select a food product

Select a food project available in Canada and one of its 'low fat', 'zero sugar', etc. alternative. Your options are unlimited: ice cream, cookies, beverage, and of course the wide and wild range of flavours, too. However, the two products that you are comparing should be similar, with one of them an alternative version of the other.

Post pictures

Include photos of the two products of your choice, clearly showing the ingredient lists and the overall labels - mandatoy, if you don't show it, the TA's can't mark the rest.

Ingredient lists (5 points)

  1. Type out the lists of ingredients
  2. Identify fat substitutes, sugar substitutes, and/or additives used, if there is any
  3. Explain the roles of fat substitutes, sugar substitutes, and/or additives used in terms of the functional properties they contribute to the product
  4. Compare and contrast the lists of the two products and explain differences

Labels (2 points)

  1. Provide detailed description of the information found on the labels
  2. Indicate whether the information complies with the regulatory requirements as outlined in Lesson 04.

Personal Choice

Please submit your individual component here on Canvas to protect your privacy and your personal opinion

What We Investigated

Team Number Product Investigated
0 (Example) Kraft Yoghurt Peach
1 Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail (Original VS Low Calorie)
2 Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream
3 Creamy Caesar Salad Dressing
4 Canada Dry vs. Canada Dry Sugar Free
5 Sports drinks Vs Common drinks
6 Coke VS Coke Zero
7 Kraft peanut butter/ Kraft light peanut butter (25% less fat)
8 Chapman's Vanilla Ice Cream/No Sugar Added Vanilla Ice Cream
9 Torani Vanilla Flavouring Syrup / Cafe Plus Sugar-Free
10 Ruffles Vs. Lays Baked
11 Sweetened vs Unsweetened Superior Natural Soy Drink
12 Haagen-Dazs Vs. Halo Top
13 Aloe Vera Drink
14 President's Choice Tonic Water
15 Fat Free Sour Cream
16 Kraft Caesar Dressing
17 Chapman’s Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich
18 Whole Milk vs Chocolate Partly Skimmed Milk
19 Lactantia Butter
20 Hershey's Syrup vs. Hershey's Syrup Sugar Free
21 Coca-Cola vs Diet Coke
22 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)
23 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)
24 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)
25 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)
26 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)
27 Product Names (please link it to the proper page)