- Abstract:
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The Health Star Rating (HSR) is an interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labelling system that rates the overall nutritional profile of packaged food and assigns a rating from 0.5 to 5 stars in half star increments. The HSR algorithm uses total sugar content as one of the components. This has been criticised because intrinsic sugars naturally present in dairy, fruits, and vegetables are treated the same as sugars added during food processing. We assessed whether the HSR could better discrimina...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted manuscript
- Publisher:
- Karger Publishers Publisher's website
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- S2
- Pages:
- 656: 144/616
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-08
- ISSN:
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0250-6807 and 1421-9697
- Pubs id:
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pubs:813692
- URN:
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uri:d7fbdaf7-ecae-4f7a-9488-c1ae956c8331
- UUID:
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uuid:d7fbdaf7-ecae-4f7a-9488-c1ae956c8331
- Local pid:
- pubs:813692
- Paper number:
- S2
- Copyright holder:
- Karger Publishers
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Copyright 2017 by S. Karger AG. This article was presented at IUNS 21st ICN International Congress of Nutrition 2017 (15-20 October 2017: Buenos Aires, Argentina). This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Karger Publishers at: 10.1159/000480486
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Improving the performance of the Health Star Rating front-of-pack nutrition labelling system by incorporating added sugar
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