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The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study
The US food supply is dominated by highly-processed packaged food and beverage products that are high in energy, saturated fat, sugar, and salt. We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 2018 US packaged food and beverage supply by nutritional composition and indicators of healthfulne...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31344845 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11081704 |
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author | Baldridge, Abigail S. Huffman, Mark D. Taylor, Fraser Xavier, Dagan Bright, Brooke Van Horn, Linda V. Neal, Bruce Dunford, Elizabeth |
author_facet | Baldridge, Abigail S. Huffman, Mark D. Taylor, Fraser Xavier, Dagan Bright, Brooke Van Horn, Linda V. Neal, Bruce Dunford, Elizabeth |
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description | The US food supply is dominated by highly-processed packaged food and beverage products that are high in energy, saturated fat, sugar, and salt. We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 2018 US packaged food and beverage supply by nutritional composition and indicators of healthfulness and level of processing. Data were obtained through Label Insight’s Open Data database, which represents >80% of all food and beverage products sold in the US over the past three years. Healthfulness and the level of processing, measured by the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the NOVA classification framework, respectively, were compared across product categories and leading manufacturers. Among 230,156 food and beverage products, the mean HSR was 2.7 (standard deviation (SD) 1.4) from a possible maximum rating of 5.0, and 71% of products were classified as ultra-processed. Healthfulness and level of processing varied substantially by category (range: HSR 1.1–3.9; 0–100% ultra-processed) and manufacturer (range: HSR 0.9–4.6; 26–100% ultra-processed). The US packaged food and beverage supply is large, heterogeneous, highly processed, and generally unhealthy. The wide variability in healthfulness and level of processing demonstrates that opportunities exist, through reformulation or replacement, for large-scale improvements to the healthfulness of the US packaged food and beverage supply. |
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spelling | pubmed-67226732019-09-10 The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study Baldridge, Abigail S. Huffman, Mark D. Taylor, Fraser Xavier, Dagan Bright, Brooke Van Horn, Linda V. Neal, Bruce Dunford, Elizabeth Nutrients Article The US food supply is dominated by highly-processed packaged food and beverage products that are high in energy, saturated fat, sugar, and salt. We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 2018 US packaged food and beverage supply by nutritional composition and indicators of healthfulness and level of processing. Data were obtained through Label Insight’s Open Data database, which represents >80% of all food and beverage products sold in the US over the past three years. Healthfulness and the level of processing, measured by the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the NOVA classification framework, respectively, were compared across product categories and leading manufacturers. Among 230,156 food and beverage products, the mean HSR was 2.7 (standard deviation (SD) 1.4) from a possible maximum rating of 5.0, and 71% of products were classified as ultra-processed. Healthfulness and level of processing varied substantially by category (range: HSR 1.1–3.9; 0–100% ultra-processed) and manufacturer (range: HSR 0.9–4.6; 26–100% ultra-processed). The US packaged food and beverage supply is large, heterogeneous, highly processed, and generally unhealthy. The wide variability in healthfulness and level of processing demonstrates that opportunities exist, through reformulation or replacement, for large-scale improvements to the healthfulness of the US packaged food and beverage supply. MDPI 2019-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6722673/ /pubmed/31344845 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11081704 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Baldridge, Abigail S. Huffman, Mark D. Taylor, Fraser Xavier, Dagan Bright, Brooke Van Horn, Linda V. Neal, Bruce Dunford, Elizabeth The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | The Healthfulness of the US Packaged Food and Beverage Supply: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | healthfulness of the us packaged food and beverage supply: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31344845 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11081704 |
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