A New Carbohydrate Food Quality Scoring System to Reflect Dietary Guidelines: An Expert Panel Report.

ABSTRACT: Existing metrics of carbohydrate food quality have been based, for the most part, on favorable fiber- and free sugar-to-carbohydrate ratios. In these metrics, higher nutritional quality carbohydrate foods are defined as those with >10% fiber and <10% free sugar per 100 g carbohydrate. Although fiber- and sugar-based metrics may help to differentiate the nutritional quality of various types of grain products, they may not aptly capture the nutritional quality of other healthy carbohydrate foods, including beans, legumes, vegetables, and fruits. Carbohydrate food quality metrics need to be applicable across these diverse food groups. This report introduces a new carbohydrate food scoring system known as a Carbohydrate Food Quality Score (CFQS), which supplements the fiber and free suga

SUBMITTER: Drewnowski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003092 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature