The healthfulness of major food brands according to Health Canada's nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the proportion of products offered by leading food brands in Canada that are 'unhealthy' according to Health Canada's (HC) nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children (M2K-NPM).

Design

Nutritional information for products offered by top brands was sourced from the University of Toronto FLIP and Menu-FLIP 2020 databases, respectively. HC's M2K-NPM, which includes thresholds for Na, total sugars and saturated fat, was applied to products.

Setting

Canada.

Participants

Overall, 1385 products from top breakfast cereal (n 15 brands, n 222 products), beverage (n 21 brands, n 769 products) and yogurt (n 10 brands, n 394 products) brands, and 3153 menu items from seventeen

SUBMITTER: Vergeer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature