What you should buy

You should only use your card to buy certain types of milk, infant formula, fruit and vegetables.

Fruit and vegetables

These should be:

• fresh or frozen or tinned
• whole or chopped
• packaged or loose
• fruit in fruit juice, or fruit or vegetables in water
• fresh, dried or tinned pulses

These should not be:

• with added ingredients like fat (oil), salt, sugar or flavourings, such as tinned tomatoes and herbs, kidney beans in chilli sauce, chips or onion rings
• juiced or pre-cooked
• fruits in syrup
• smoothies

Plain cow’s milk

This should be plain cow’s milk, which is pasteurised, sterilised, long-life or ultra-heat treated (UHT).

It should not be:

• flavoured
• coloured
• evaporated
• condensed
• plant-based milk
• powdered (unless it’s stage one infant formula)

Infant formula

This should be:

• labelled as suitable from birth
• made from cow’s milk

It should not be follow-on formula or milk (‘from 6 months’, or ‘from 6 to 12 months’).

Find out more about infant formula (opens in a new tab).