Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)

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Regulations are current to 2013-06-10 and last amended on 2013-05-31. Previous Versions

SCHEDULE M

(Sections B.01.001, B.01.002A and D.01.001)

REFERENCE AMOUNTS

Item	Column 1	Column 2
Item	Food	Reference amount Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ¹
	*Bakery Products*
1.	Bread, excluding sweet quick-type rolls	50 g
2.	Bagels, tea biscuits, scones, rolls, buns, croissants, tortillas, soft bread sticks, soft pretzels and corn bread	55 g
3.	Brownies	40 g
4.	Heavy weight cake: 10 g or more per 2.5 cm cube, such as cheese cake, pineapple upside-down cake, cake with at least 35% of the finished weight as fruit, nuts or vegetables, or any of these combined	125 g
5.	Medium weight cake: 4 g or more per 2.5 cm cube but less than 10 g per 2.5 cm cube, such as cake with or without icing or filling, cake with less than 35% of the finished weight as fruit, nuts or vegetables or any of these combined, light weight cake with icing, Boston cream pie, cupcakes, eclairs or cream puffs	80 g
6.	Light weight cake: less than 4 g per 2.5 cm cube, such as angel food, chiffon or sponge cake, without icing or filling	55 g
7.	Coffee cakes, doughnuts, danishes, sweet rolls, sweet quick-type breads and muffins	55 g
8.	Cookies, with or without coating or filling, and graham wafers	30 g
9.	Crackers, hard bread sticks and melba toast	20 g
10.	Dry breads, matzo and rusks	30 g
11.	Flaky type pastries, with or without filling or icing	55 g
12.	Toaster pastries	55 g
13.	Ice cream cones	5 g
14.	Croutons	7 g
15.	French toast, pancakes and waffles	75 g
16.	Grain-based bars, with filling or partial or full coating	40 g
17.	Grain-based bars, without filling or coating	30 g
18.	Rice cakes and corn cakes	15 g
19.	Pies, tarts, cobblers, turnovers and other pastries	110 g
20.	Pie crust	1/6 of 20 cm crust or 1/8 of 23 cm crust
21.	Pizza crust	55 g
22.	Taco shell, hard	30 g
	*Beverages*
23.	Carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and wine coolers	355 mL
24.	Sports drinks and water	500 mL
25.	Coffee: regular, instant and specialty, including espresso, café au lait, flavoured and sweetened	175 mL
26.	Tea and herbal tea
	(a) regular and instant (hot)	175 mL
	(b) Flavoured and sweetened, prepared from mixes, such as iced tea	250 mL
	(c) Flavoured and sweetened, ready-to-drink, such as iced tea	355 mL
27.	Cocoa and chocolate beverages (hot)	175 mL
	*Cereals and Other Grain Products*
28.	Hot breakfast cereals, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat	40 g dry
28.	Hot breakfast cereals, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat	250 mL prepared
29.	Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, puffed and uncoated (less than 20 g per 250 mL)	15 g
30.	Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, puffed and coated, flaked, extruded, without fruit or nuts (20 g to 42 g per 250 mL), very high fibre cereals (with 28 g or more fibre per 100 g)	30 g
31.	Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, fruit and nut type, granola (43 g or more per 250 mL) and biscuit type cereals	55 g
32.	Bran and wheat germ	15 g
33.	Flours, including cornmeal	30 g
34.	Grains, such as rice or barley	45 g dry
34.	Grains, such as rice or barley	140 g cooked
35.	Pastas without sauce	85 g dry
35.	Pastas without sauce	215 g cooked
36.	Pastas, dry and ready-to-eat, such as fried canned chow mein noodles	25 g
37.	Starch, such as cornstarch, potato starch, tapioca starch or wheat starch	10 g
38.	Stuffing	100 g
	*Dairy Products and Substitutes*
39.	Cheese, including cream cheese and cheese spread, except those listed as a separate item	30 g
40.	Cottage cheese	125 g
41.	Cheese used as an ingredient, such as dry cottage cheese or ricotta cheese	55 g
42.	Hard cheese, grated, such as parmesan or romano	15 g
43.	Quark, fresh cheese and fresh dairy desserts	100 g
44.	Cream and cream substitute, except those listed as a separate item	15 mL
45.	Cream and cream substitute, powder	2 g
46.	Cream and cream substitute, aerosol or whipped	15 g
47.	Eggnog	125 mL
48.	Milk, evaporated or condensed	15 mL
49.	Plant-based beverages, milk, buttermilk and milk-based drinks, such as chocolate milk	250 mL
50.	Shakes and shake substitutes, such as dairy shake mix	250 mL
51.	Sour cream	30 mL
52.	Yogurt	175 g
	*Desserts*
53.	Ice cream, ice milk, frozen yogurt and sherbet	125 mL
54.	Dairy desserts, frozen, such as cakes, bars, sandwiches or cones	125 mL
55.	Non-dairy desserts, frozen, such as flavoured and sweetened ice or pops, or frozen fruit juices in bars or cups	75 mL
56.	Sundaes	250 mL
57.	Custard, gelatin and pudding	125 mL
	*Dessert Toppings and Fillings*
58.	Dessert toppings, such as maple butter and marshmallow cream	30 g
59.	Cake frostings and icings	35 g
60.	Pie fillings	75 mL
	*Eggs and Egg Substitutes*
61.	Egg mixtures, such as egg foo young, scrambled eggs or omelets	110 g
62.	Eggs	50 g
63.	Egg substitutes	50 g
	*Fats and Oils*
64.	Butter, margarine, shortening and lard	10 g
65.	Vegetable oil	10 mL
66.	Butter replacement, powder	2 g
67.	Dressings for salad	30 mL
68.	Mayonnaise, sandwich spread and mayonnaise-type dressing	15 mL
69.	Oil, spray type	0.5 g
	*Marine and Fresh Water Animals*
70.	Canned anchovies, anchovy paste and caviar	15 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
71.	Marine and fresh water animals with sauce, such as fish with cream sauce or shrimp with lobster sauce	140 g cooked
72.	Marine and fresh water animals without sauce, such as plain or fried fish or shellfish, or fish or shellfish cakes, with or without breading or batter	125 g raw
72.		100 g cooked
73.	Marine and fresh water animals, canned	55 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
74.	Marine and fresh water animals, smoked or pickled, or spreads	55 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
	*Fruit and Fruit Juices*
75.	Fruit, fresh, canned or frozen, except those listed as a separate item	140 g
75.		150 mL canned Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
76.	Candied or pickled fruit	30 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
77.	Dried fruit, such as raisins, dates or figs	40 g
78.	Fruit for garnish or flavour, such as maraschino cherries	4 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
79.	Fruit relishes	60 mL
80.	Avocado, used as an ingredient	30 g
81.	Cranberries, lemons and limes, used as ingredients	55 g
82.	Watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew and other melons	150 g
83.	Juices, nectars and fruit drinks represented for use as substitutes for fruit juices	250 mL
84.	Juices, used as ingredients, such as lemon juice or lime juice	5 mL
	*Legumes*
85.	Bean curd (tofu) and tempeh	85 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
86.	Beans, peas and lentils, such as white beans, kidney beans, romano beans, soybeans or chick peas	100 g dry
86.		250 mL cooked or canned Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
	*Meat, Poultry, Their Products and Substitutes*
87.	Pork rinds and bacon	54 g uncooked
87.	Pork rinds and bacon	15 g cooked
88.	Beef, pork and poultry breakfast strips	30 g uncooked
88.	Beef, pork and poultry breakfast strips	15 g cooked
89.	Dried meat and poultry, such as jerky, dried beef or parma ham, as well as sausage products with a water activity of 0.90 or less, such as salami, dried thuringer or cervelat	30 g
90.	Luncheon meats, such as bologna, blood pudding, minced luncheon roll, liver sausage, mortadella, ham and cheese loaf or headcheese; pâté; sandwich spread; potted meat food product; taco fillings; meat pie fillings and cretons	75 g uncooked
90.		55 g cooked
91.	Sausage products, such as linked sausage, Vienna sausage, wieners, breakfast sausage, frankfurters, pork sausage, bratwurst, kielbasa, Polish sausage, summer sausage, smoked sausage, smoked country sausage, pepperoni, knackwurst, thuringer or cervelat	75 g uncooked
91.		55 g cooked
92.	Cuts of meat and poultry without sauce, and ready-to-cook cuts, with or without breading or batter, including marinated, tenderized and injected cuts	125 g raw
92.		100 g cooked
93.	Patties, cutlettes, chopettes, steakettes, meatballs, sausage meat and ground meat, with or without breading or batter	100 g raw
93.		60 g cooked
94.	Cured meat products, such as cured ham, dry cured ham, back bacon, cured pork back, dry cured cappicolo, corned beef, pastrami, country ham, cured pork shoulder picnic, cured poultry ham products, smoked meat or pickled meat	85 g raw
94.		55 g cooked
95.	Canned meat and poultry	55 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
96.	Meat and poultry with sauce, such as meat in barbecue sauce or turkey with gravy, but excluding combination dishes	140 g
	*Miscellaneous*
97.	Baking powder, baking soda and pectin	0.6 g
98.	Baking decorations, such as coloured sugars or sprinkles for cookies	4 g
99.	Bread crumbs and batter mixes	30 g
100.	Cooking wine	30 mL
101.	Cocoa powder	5 g
102.	Non-alcoholic drink mixers, such as pina colada or daiquiri	250 mL
103.	Chewing gum	3 g
104.	Salad and potato toppers, such as salad crunchies, salad crispins or substitutes for bacon bits	7 g
105.	Salt and salt substitutes, as well as seasoned salt, such as garlic salt	1 g
106.	Spices and herbs	0.5 g
	*Combination Dishes*
107.	Measurable with a cup, such as casserole, hash, macaroni and cheese with or without meat, pot pie, spaghetti with sauce, stir fry, meat or poultry casserole, baked or refried beans, wieners and beans, meat chili, chili with beans, creamed chipped beef, beef or poultry ravioli in sauce, beef stroganoff, poultry à la king, Brunswick stew, goulash, stew, ragout or poutine	250 mL
108.	Not measurable with a cup, such as burritos, egg rolls, enchiladas, pizza, pizza rolls, sausage rolls, pastry rolls, cabbage rolls, quiche, sandwiches, crackers and meat or poultry lunch-type packages, gyros, burger on a bun, frank on a bun, calzones, tacos, pockets stuffed with meat, lasagna, chicken cordon bleu, stuffed vegetables with meat or poultry, shish kabobs, empanadas, fajitas, souvlaki, meat pie or tourtière	140 g without gravy or sauce
108.		195 g with gravy or sauce
109.	Hors d’oeuvres	50 g
	*Nuts and Seeds*
110.	Nuts and seeds, not for use as snacks: whole, chopped, sliced, slivered or ground	30 g shelled
111.	Butters, pastes and creams, other than peanut butter	30 g
112.	Peanut butter	15 g
113.	Flours, such as coconut flour	15 g
	*Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes and Yams*
114.	French fries, hash browns, skins and pancakes	85 g frozen French fries
114.	French fries, hash browns, skins and pancakes	70 g prepared
115.	Mashed, candied, stuffed or with sauce	140 g
116.	Plain, fresh, canned or frozen	110 g fresh or frozen
		125 g vacuum packed
		160 g canned Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
	*Salads*
117.	Salads, such as egg, fish, shellfish, bean, fruit, vegetable, meat, ham or poultry salad, except those listed as a separate item	100 g
118.	Gelatin salad	120 g
119.	Pasta or potato salad	140 g
	*Sauces, Dips, Gravies and Condiments*
120.	Sauces for dipping, such as barbecue, hollandaise, tartar, mustard or sweet and sour sauce	30 mL
121.	Dips, such as legume or dairy-based	30 g
122.	Major main entree sauce, such as spaghetti sauce	125 mL
123.	Minor main entree sauce, such as pizza sauce, pesto sauce or other sauces used as toppings, such as white sauce, cheese sauce, salsa, cocktail sauce or gravy	60 mL
124.	Major condiments, such as ketchup, steak sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, teriyaki sauce or marinades	15 mL
125.	Minor condiments, such as horseradish, hot sauce, mustard or worcestershire sauce	5 mL
	*Snacks*
126.	Chips, pretzels, popcorn, extruded snacks, grain-based snack mixes and fruit-based snacks, such as fruit chips	50 g
127.	Nuts or seeds for use as snacks	50 g shelled
128.	Meat or poultry snack food sticks	20 g
	*Soups*
129.	All varieties	250 mL
	*Sugars and Sweets*
130.	Candies, including chocolate bars and other chocolate products, except those listed as a separate item	40 g
131.	Hard candies, except those listed as a separate item	15 g
132.	Baking candies, such as chocolate chips	15 g
133.	Breath mints	2 g
134.	Roll-type hard candies and mini size hard candies in dispenser packages	5 g
135.	Confectioner’s or icing sugar	30 g
136.	Bread spreads, except those listed as a separate item, honey and molasses	20 g
137.	Jams, jellies, marmalades, fruit butters and spreads	15 mL
138.	Marshmallows	30 g
139.	Sugars, except those listed as a separate item	4 g
140.	Sugar substitute	amount equivalent in sweetness to 4 g of sugar
141.	Syrups, including chocolate, maple and corn syrup	30 mL as ingredient
141.	Syrups, including chocolate, maple and corn syrup	60 mL other uses
	*Vegetables*
142.	Vegetables without sauce, including cream style corn and stewed tomatoes, but not including vegetables without sauce listed as a separate item	85 g fresh or frozen
142.		125 mL canned Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
143.	Vegetables with sauce	110 g fresh or frozen
143.	Vegetables with sauce	125 mL canned
144.	Vegetables primarily used for garnish or flavouring, fresh, canned or frozen, but not dried, such as parsley or garlic	4 g
145.	Chili pepper and green onion	30 g
146.	Seaweed	15 g
147.	Lettuce and sprouts	65 g
148.	Vegetable juice and vegetable drink	250 mL
149.	Olives	15 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
150.	Pickles	30 g Footnote for REFERENCE AMOUNTS ²
151.	Relish	15 mL
152.	Vegetable pastes, such as tomato paste	30 mL
153.	Vegetable sauce or purée, such as tomato sauce or tomato purée	60 mL

Return to footnote ¹Unless otherwise noted, the reference amounts are for the ready-to-serve or almost ready-to-serve form of the food. If not listed separately, the reference amount for the unprepared form, such as dry mixes, concentrates, dough, batter, and fresh or frozen pasta, is the amount required to make one reference amount of the prepared form.
Return to footnote ²Excludes any liquid in which the solid food may be packed or canned, unless the liquid is customarily consumed with the solid food.
Return to footnote ³Meat and poultry substitutes include extended and simulated meat and poultry products.

SOR/2003-11, s. 37;
SOR/2010-94, s. 7(F);
SOR/2012-43, ss. 47, 48.

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SCHEDULE M

(Sections B.01.001, B.01.002A and D.01.001)