The nutritional quality of supermarket own brand chilled convenience foods: an Australian cross-sectional study reveals limitations of the Health Star Rating.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest there is potential for Australian supermarkets to improve the nutritional quality of their SOBCCF and highlights the differences between supermarkets in applying their corporate social responsibility policies. Policies to assist consumers to select healthier foods should address difficulties in identifying healthy convenience foods. The findings reveal misclassification of unhealthy SOBCCF as healthy by the HSR suggesting that its algorithm should be reformed to align with recommendations of the AGTHE.
PMID: 32657266 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pulker CE, Farquhar HR, Pollard CM, Scott JA Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
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