It seems you are in good company as many people are unaware how to follow a healthy, balanced diet.
According to the official food watchdog in Britain the Food Standards Agency (FSA), many Brits do not understand how to follow a balanced diet despite numerous campaigns highlighting which foods are healthy or unhealthy.
A survey conducted by the FSA shows that there is widespread ignorance about how much starchy food such as rice, bread and pasta should be eaten.
There is also considerable confusion over what can contribute towards the target "five a day" intake of fruit and vegetables.
The FSA believes conflicting messages from different weight-loss diets could be adding to the confusion and creating misconceptions.
The FSA survey of 2,094 people found that only 11% of people correctly said it was important to eat lots of starchy foods, only 45% realised tinned fruit and veg count towards "five a day"; 54% understood frozen fruit and veg can count and 53% realised dried fruit count.
Seventy three percent recognised the importance of eating lots of fresh fruit and vegetables but 19% wrongly thought eating plenty of fruit and veg could "outweigh" eating fatty, sugary foods and 58% realised foods high in fat and sugar should only be eaten occasionally.
Seventeen per cent believed they could limit the damage through exercise - even though burning off calories does not stop saturated fat in unhealthy foods potentially causing heart trouble.
As a result the FSA has re-designed the image it uses to show what makes up a healthy diet with a newly-designed "eatwell plate" which uses photos of different foods and renames some food groups.