The healthfulness of the US packaged food and beverage supply: a cross-sectional study
| Autor: | Elizabeth Dunford, Brooke Bright, Fraser Taylor, Dagan Xavier, Linda Van Horn, Bruce Neal, Mark D. Huffman, Abigail S. Baldridge |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Food Handling Star rating Saturated fat Nutritional composition lcsh:TX341-641 Recommended Dietary Allowances nutrient profiling Article processed food Beverages 03 medical and health sciences Agricultural science 0302 clinical medicine Food Labeling Food supply Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Nutrient profiling 2. Zero hunger 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Food Packaging United States NOVA classification food supply Cross-Sectional Studies Food processing 1111 Nutrition and Dietetics Business Diet Healthy lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply Nutritive Value Health Star Rating Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients Volume 11 Issue 8 Nutrients, Vol 11, Iss 8, p 1704 (2019) |
| Popis: | The US food supply is dominated by highly-processed packaged food and beverage products that are high in energy, saturated fat, sugar, and salt. We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 2018 US packaged food and beverage supply by nutritional composition and indicators of healthfulness and level of processing. Data were obtained through Label Insight&rsquo s Open Data database, which represents > 80% of all food and beverage products sold in the US over the past three years. Healthfulness and the level of processing, measured by the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the NOVA classification framework, respectively, were compared across product categories and leading manufacturers. Among 230,156 food and beverage products, the mean HSR was 2.7 (standard deviation (SD) 1.4) from a possible maximum rating of 5.0, and 71% of products were classified as ultra-processed. Healthfulness and level of processing varied substantially by category (range: HSR 1.1&ndash 3.9 0&ndash 100% ultra-processed) and manufacturer (range: HSR 0.9&ndash 4.6 26&ndash 100% ultra-processed). The US packaged food and beverage supply is large, heterogeneous, highly processed, and generally unhealthy. The wide variability in healthfulness and level of processing demonstrates that opportunities exist, through reformulation or replacement, for large-scale improvements to the healthfulness of the US packaged food and beverage supply. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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