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Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality

BACKGROUND: Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are associated with adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to analyse the national trends in retail sales, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality of UPFs in Thailand. METHODS: The study used data from the Euromonitor Passport database for analysis of...

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Autores principales: Phulkerd, Sirinya, Thongcharoenchupong, Natjera, Dickie, Sarah, Machado, Priscila, Woods, Julie, Mo-Suwan, Ladda, Prasertsom, Piyada, Ungchusak, Chantana, Khitdee, Chiraporn, Lawrence, Mark
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37653543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00966-1
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author Phulkerd, Sirinya
Thongcharoenchupong, Natjera
Dickie, Sarah
Machado, Priscila
Woods, Julie
Mo-Suwan, Ladda
Prasertsom, Piyada
Ungchusak, Chantana
Khitdee, Chiraporn
Lawrence, Mark
author_facet Phulkerd, Sirinya
Thongcharoenchupong, Natjera
Dickie, Sarah
Machado, Priscila
Woods, Julie
Mo-Suwan, Ladda
Prasertsom, Piyada
Ungchusak, Chantana
Khitdee, Chiraporn
Lawrence, Mark
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description BACKGROUND: Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are associated with adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to analyse the national trends in retail sales, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality of UPFs in Thailand. METHODS: The study used data from the Euromonitor Passport database for analysis of retail sales and consumer expenditure, and from the Mintel Global New Products Database for nutritional analysis using the WHO Southeast Asian Region nutrient profile model. RESULTS: The study found the highest per capita sales volume and value of UPFs in 2021 were sauces, dressings & condiments (8.4 kg/capita) and carbonated soft drinks (27.1 L/capita), respectively. However, functional & flavoured water, ready-made meals and baked goods had the highest observed (2012–2021) and expected (2021–2026) sales growth. Supermarkets were responsible for most of the UPF sales since 2012, but convenience stores had larger growth in retail values. Growth in consumer expenditure per capita on UPFs from 2012 to 2020, ranged between 12.7% and 34%, and till 2026 is forecast to grow between 26% and 30%. More than half of UPFs exceeded at least one nutrient cutoff, 59.3% for total fats, 24.8% for saturated fats, 68.2% for total sugars and 94.3% for sodium. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest a need for regulatory and non-regulatory measures such as UPF taxation and marketing restrictions, and market incentives for producing non-UPFs. A system for regularly monitoring and evaluating healthiness (both nutritional and processing aspects) of food products, especially UPFs, is required. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12992-023-00966-1.
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spelling pubmed-104726972023-09-02 Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality Phulkerd, Sirinya Thongcharoenchupong, Natjera Dickie, Sarah Machado, Priscila Woods, Julie Mo-Suwan, Ladda Prasertsom, Piyada Ungchusak, Chantana Khitdee, Chiraporn Lawrence, Mark Global Health Research BACKGROUND: Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are associated with adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to analyse the national trends in retail sales, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality of UPFs in Thailand. METHODS: The study used data from the Euromonitor Passport database for analysis of retail sales and consumer expenditure, and from the Mintel Global New Products Database for nutritional analysis using the WHO Southeast Asian Region nutrient profile model. RESULTS: The study found the highest per capita sales volume and value of UPFs in 2021 were sauces, dressings & condiments (8.4 kg/capita) and carbonated soft drinks (27.1 L/capita), respectively. However, functional & flavoured water, ready-made meals and baked goods had the highest observed (2012–2021) and expected (2021–2026) sales growth. Supermarkets were responsible for most of the UPF sales since 2012, but convenience stores had larger growth in retail values. Growth in consumer expenditure per capita on UPFs from 2012 to 2020, ranged between 12.7% and 34%, and till 2026 is forecast to grow between 26% and 30%. More than half of UPFs exceeded at least one nutrient cutoff, 59.3% for total fats, 24.8% for saturated fats, 68.2% for total sugars and 94.3% for sodium. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest a need for regulatory and non-regulatory measures such as UPF taxation and marketing restrictions, and market incentives for producing non-UPFs. A system for regularly monitoring and evaluating healthiness (both nutritional and processing aspects) of food products, especially UPFs, is required. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12992-023-00966-1. BioMed Central 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10472697/ /pubmed/37653543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00966-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Phulkerd, Sirinya
Thongcharoenchupong, Natjera
Dickie, Sarah
Machado, Priscila
Woods, Julie
Mo-Suwan, Ladda
Prasertsom, Piyada
Ungchusak, Chantana
Khitdee, Chiraporn
Lawrence, Mark
Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality
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title_fullStr Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality
title_full_unstemmed Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality
title_short Profiling ultra-processed foods in Thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality
title_sort profiling ultra-processed foods in thailand: sales trend, consumer expenditure and nutritional quality
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37653543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00966-1
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