Data
Year of publication
2020
Type
Quantitative
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
NOVA, other
Country studied
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Serbia, Sudan, the USA and Zimbabwe.
Data
Secondary
Data Collected
Database
Study setting
Retail
Age group of participant
N/A
Participant sex
N/A
Target population
General
Sample size
n=291 (food packages)
The nutritional quality of supermarket own brand chilled convenience foods: An Australian Cross-sectionalstudy reveals limitations of the Health Star Rating
Goal
Assess the nutritional quality of Austrailian supermarket own brand chilled convenience foods (SOBCCF).
Results
Fifty-four percentage of SOBCCF were classified as unhealthy according to AGTHE principles, 94 % were ultra-processed foods using NOVA and 81 % scored a HSR of ≥2·5, implying that they were a healthy choice. Some convenience food groups comprised more healthy choices overall including prepared vegetables, salad kits and bowls, soups and vegetarian food. A significantly larger proportion of SOBCCF from Coles were classified as unhealthy compared with Woolworths (70 v. 44 %, P < 0·05) using the AGTHE.
Authors
Pulker CE, Farquhar HR, Pollard CM, Scott JA.
Journal
Public Health Nutrition
DOI