Ultra-processed foods: how functional is the NOVA system?

V Braesco, I Souchon, P Sauvant, T Haurogné… - European journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background In the NOVA classification system, descriptive criteria are used to assign foods
to one of four groups based on processing-related criteria. Although NOVA is widely used …

Contemporary approaches for monitoring food marketing to children to progress policy actions

B Kelly, K Backholer, E Boyland, MP Kent… - Current Nutrition …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Protecting children from unhealthful food marketing is a global
priority policy for improving population diets. Monitoring the nature and extent of children's …

Nutrient profile models a useful tool to facilitate healthier food choices: A comprehensive review

M Santos, AI Rito, FN Matias, R Assunção… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The term “nutrient profile”(NP) has been associated with several concepts
arising from the need to regulate the choice of food products, and to allow consumers to …

Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods

D Mozaffarian, NH El-Abbadi, M O'Hearn… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Nutrient profiling systems (NPS) aim to discriminate the healthfulness of foods for front-of-
package labelling, warning labels, taxation, company ratings and more. Existing NPS often …

Comparison of nutri-score and health star rating nutrient profiling models using large branded foods composition database and sales data

E Hafner, I Pravst - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Front-of-package nutrition labelling (FOPNL) is known as an effective tool that can
encourage healthier food choices and food reformulation. A very interesting type of FOPNL …

Evaluation of the ability of nutri-score to discriminate the nutritional quality of prepacked foods using a sale-weighting approach

E Hafner, I Pravst - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
The implementation of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling is currently being
discussed in the European Union (EU). The Nutri-Score (NS) was developed in France to …

Food processing: comparison of different food classification systems

TP de Araújo, MM de Moraes, C Afonso, C Santos… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
The substitution of minimally processed food and culinary home preparations for ready-to-
eat products is increasing worldwide, which is overlooked as a cause of concern. The …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus index: A review of nutrient profile models as a fundamental pillar of food and nutrition security

A Fernández-Ríos, J Laso, C Campos… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus approach should be promoted as a tool for
sustainable management of resources through the interconnection of these three …

Nutritional quality of pre-packaged foods in China under various nutrient profile models

Y Li, H Wang, P Zhang, BM Popkin, DH Coyle, J Ding… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study used various nutrient profile models (NPMs) to evaluate the nutritional quality of
pre-packaged foods in China to inform future food policy development. Nutrition data for pre …

An overlap between “ultraprocessed” foods and the preexisting nutrient rich foods index?

A Drewnowski, S Gupta, N Darmon - Nutrition today, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The category of “ultraprocessed” foods in the NOVA food classification scheme is ostensibly
based on industrial processing. We compared NOVA category assignments with the …