Development of the Choices 5-Level Criteria to Support Multiple Food System Actions.

ABSTRACT: In 2008, the Choices International Foundation developed its logo criteria, identifying best-in-class food products. More advanced, global and graded nutrient profiling systems (NPSs) are needed to substantiate different national nutrition policies. The objective of this work was to extend Choices NPS to identify five levels of the healthiness of food products, so that the Choices NPS can also be used to support other nutrition policies, next to front-of-pack labelling. Based on the same principles as the previous logo criteria, four sets of threshold criteria were determined using a combination of compliance levels, calculated from a large international food group-specific database, the Choices logo criteria, and WHO-NPSs developed to restrict marketing to children. Validation consisted of

SUBMITTER: Tognon G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8705685 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature