Are home-brand foods healthy? If you read the label, you may be pleasantly surprised

  • Written by: Lauren Ball, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University
Are home-brand foods healthy? If you read the label, you may be pleasantly surprisedJoshua Rawson-Harris/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

The cost of groceries in Australia has sky-rocketed this year. So people may be tempted to switch to home-brand foods to save on their weekly food bill.

Home-brand foods are certainly cheaper. But are they healthy?

Here’s what we know about the nutrients they contain compared with the more expensive named...

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