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 Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are in the world, I hope you've had a good seasonal break for me in Canada in the northern climates. It's been cold, it's been down to minus 14 Celsius, some strong winds and some snow winds and what have you. And of course in the southern hemisphere in Australia and parts of Africa and South America and New Zealand, it's been a lot.

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 And what we have here is a screenshot from the Government of Canada, Health Canada website,

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 which describes the requirement to have a front of package symbol for the products that have high saturated fat, sugars or sodium.

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 This is, I will have a link in the website, but it's a very clearly defined symbol.

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 And the next shot is going to be that symbol.

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 So here we have it. It's a black and white symbol.

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 It's very well defined.

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 There's no ambiguity here.

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 The food industry is required to have these symbols on their products in the size and shape and the detail that you can see there.

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 Canada is a bilingual country, English and French. So you've got English and French on there.

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 And that is what is appearing. And when we look at the screenshots of the Chapman's ice cream and also one of my favorites at this time of year, the Starbucks cranberry bliss bars, you can see it very clearly on the front there.

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 So here we have the Chapman's ice cream that I was talking about in the previous video. And you can see it in the top right-hand corner of the package there next to the Canadian flag.

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 Very clear, very obvious and very informative to the buyer, the purchaser.

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 So now we have a screenshot of the Starbucks cranberry bliss bar showing the new front of label front of product or front of package label that Health Canada requires. Very nice, very clear and very obvious to and very informative to the purchaser. That is the object of food labeling and to have information like this clearly available to the buyer. It's a very good step I think for January the 1st, 2026 here in Canada.

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 And just for clarity, here is the food label from the Chapman's ice cream product. As you can see, there's a lot of bean gum and cellulose gum and guava gum and carrageenan, all additives that are required for manufacturing and processing rather than end-user consumption. This doesn't really add very much to the product for you and me as a person scooping out some product to eat, but it helps with the manufacturing.

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 In this shot we have the Starbucks cranberry bliss bars ingredient list. As you can see sugar is mentioned a lot, sucrose which is a sugar alcohol, maltodextrin, there's another type of sugar alcohol. Even the things that I used to focus on before I was a diabetic. Oh this has got cream cheese in it, wonderful. That too also has culture salt, carabin gum, guava gum. So even that is is not straightforward, a straightforward healthy product. And further down you've got canola oil, palm oil and even the orange peel which is in the in the product also has sugar in it. So sugar is mentioned a lot. I'll leave it up to you to go through that list and see the and count the number of times sugar or sugar alcohol is mentioned. And of course both of the ingredients labels have sections for allergens or may contain in them.

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