A Progressive Nutrient Profiling System to Guide Improvements in Nutrient Density of Foods and Beverages.

ABSTRACT: Improving the nutrient density of processed foods is one way to bring the global food supply closer to the WHO Sustainable Development Goals. Nutrient profiling (NP) has emerged as the preferred method of monitoring the progress toward product innovation and reformulation. This paper presents PepsiCo Nutrition Criteria (PNC), a new internal NP model that was designed to guide and monitor improvements in nutrient density and overall nutritional quality of foods and beverages. The new PNC NP model assigns food products into four classes of increasing nutritional value, based on the content of nutrients to limit, along with nutrients and ingredients to encourage. The nutrient standards used for category assignment followed those developed by global dietary authorities. Standards are proposed

SUBMITTER: Greenberg D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8733001 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature