Contribution of major food companies and their products to household dietary sodium purchases in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Australian federal government will soon release voluntary sodium reduction targets for 30 packaged food categories through the Healthy Food Partnership. Previous assessments of voluntary targets show variable industry engagement, and little is known about the extent that major food companies and their products contribute to dietary sodium purchases among Australian households.

Methods

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify the relative contribution that food companies and their products made to Australian household sodium purchases in 2018, and to examine differences in sodium purchases by household income level. We used 1 year of grocery purchase data from a nationally representative consumer panel of Australian households who reported their gr

SUBMITTER: Coyle DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310483 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature