ArticleNutrients2021
Two Dimensions of Nutritional Value: Nutri-Score and NOVA.
Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05842460 (Testing the Impact of an "Ultraprocessed" Front-of-package Warning Label Among Brazilian Consumers), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Testing the Impact of an "Ultraprocessed" Front-of-package Warning Label Among Brazilian Consumers
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Risk of Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Are All Ultra-Processed Foods Created Equal? Descriptive Analysis of Nutritional Composition, Nutritional Quality, Energy Density and Hyperpalatability in Relation to Non-Communicable Disease Risk.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Beyond Nutrient Profiling: Strengths, Limitations, and Emerging Challenges for Nutri-Score and Related Front-of-Pack Labeling Systems.Nutrients · 2026Review
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- 'Do plant-based meats offer a steppingstone towards healthier choices? A cross-sectional audit of the UK market'.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Article
- High consumption of ultra-processed food and risk of colorectal cancer: the Norwegian Women and Cancer cohort study.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
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- Assessment of the influence of Nutri-Score on Polish consumer Choices - Insights from the nationwide, Cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unhealthy Ultra-Processed Food, Diet Quality and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Children and Adolescents: The DELICIOUS Project.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Toward Multidimensional Front-of-Pack Labels: Integrating Nutritional, Environmental, and Processing Information.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Nutritional quality and on-package marketing of pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic beverages for sale in Senegalese supermarkets.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Fifteen Years of NOVA Food-Processing Classification: "Friend or Foe" Among Sustainable Diet Indicators? A Scoping Review.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
- Front-of-pack labeling and perceived nutritional quality in adults with and without chronic disease: results from a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Differential association of dietary scores with the risk of type 2 diabetes by metabotype.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Nutrients or processing? An analysis of food and drink items from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey based on nutrient content, the NOVA classification and front of package traffic light labelling.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Precision Food Composition Data as a Tool to Decipher the Riddle of Ultra-Processed Foods and Nutritional Quality.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Less Favorable Nutri-Score Consumption Ratings Are Prospectively Associated with Abdominal Obesity in Older Adults.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Ultra-processed Food and Obesity: What Is the Evidence?Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
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Abstract
Front-of-pack labels can improve the ability of consumers to identify which foods are healthier, making them a useful public health tool. Nutri-Score is a front-of-pack labelling system adopted by several European countries. This system ranks foods according to their nutritional quality, but does not consider other dimensions such as the degree of food processing. The aim of this study is to compare the nutritional quality (as assessed by Nutri-Score) and the ultra-processing (as assessed by the NOVA classification) of foods in the Open Food Facts database. A simple correspondence analysis was carried out to study the relationship between the two systems. Ultra-processed foods (NOVA 4) were found in all Nutri-Score categories, ranging from 26.08% in nutritional category A, 51.48% in category B, 59.09% in category C, 67.39% in category D to up to 83.69% in nutritional category E. Given the negative effect that the consumption of ultra-processed foods has on different aspects of health, front-of-pack labelling with Nutri-Score should at least be accompanied by complementary labelling indicating the level of processing, such as the NOVA classification.
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