ArticleNutrients2019
Free Sugar Content in Pre-Packaged Products: Does Voluntary Product Reformulation Work in Practice?
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- The Slovenian Nutrition Guidelines 2025: A Comparison with the Prior Slovenian FBDG, Dietary Intake, and the EAT-Lancet Diet.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Ultra-Processed Foods in the Food Supply: Prevalence, Nutritional Composition and Use of Voluntary Labelling Schemes.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Impact of different front-of-package labeling models on food choices among residents in Shanghai, China: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Verifying the Use of Food Labeling Data for Compiling Branded Food Databases: A Case Study of Sugars in Beverages.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Total and Free Sugar Levels and Main Types of Sugars Used in 18,784 Local and Imported Pre-Packaged Foods and Beverages Sold in Hong Kong.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Use of Food Additive Titanium Dioxide (E171) before the Introduction of Regulatory Restrictions Due to Concern for Genotoxicity.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the Ability of Nutri-Score to Discriminate the Nutritional Quality of Prepacked Foods Using a Sale-Weighting Approach.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sugars, Salt, Saturated Fat and Fibre Purchased through Packaged Food and Soft Drinks in Europe 2015-2018: Are We Making Progress?Nutrients · 2021Article
- Trends in the Use of Low and No-Calorie Sweeteners in Non-Alcoholic Beverages in Slovenia.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Strategies for Reducing Salt and Sugar Intakes in Individuals at Increased Cardiometabolic Risk.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Branded Foods Databases as a Tool to Support Nutrition Research and Monitoring of the Food Supply: Insights From the Slovenian Composition and Labeling Information System.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
- The Sharp Rise in the Use of Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners in Non-Alcoholic Beverages in Slovenia: An Update Based on 2020 Data.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Use of Branded Food Composition Databases for the Exploitation of Food Fortification Practices: A Case Study on Vitamin D in the Slovenian Food Supply.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ultra-processed, pre-packaged foods are becoming a growing part of our diet, while displacing whole and minimally processed foods. This results in an increased intake of free sugar, salt, and saturated fats, that have a profoundly negative effect on health. We aimed to assess the trend in free sugar content in pre-packaged foods in Slovenia and evaluate the efficacy of industry self-regulations designed to combat the excess consumption of free sugar. A nation-wide data collection of the Slovenian food supply was performed in 2015 and repeated in 2017. In 2017, 54.5% of all products (
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