Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092771
Title: An assessment of three carbohydrate metrics of nutritional quality for packaged foods and beverages in Australia and Southeast asia
Authors: Tan, D.
Olden, A.N.
Orengo, A.
Francey, C.
Campos, V.C.
Fayet-Moore, F.
Kim, J.E. 
Lê, K.-A.
Keywords: Asia Pacific
Carbohydrate quality
Dietary fibre
Free sugars
Nutrient profiling model
Nutritional quality
Packaged foods
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Citation: Tan, D., Olden, A.N., Orengo, A., Francey, C., Campos, V.C., Fayet-Moore, F., Kim, J.E., Lê, K.-A. (2020). An assessment of three carbohydrate metrics of nutritional quality for packaged foods and beverages in Australia and Southeast asia. Nutrients 12 (9) : 1-24. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092771
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Carbohydrate quality is an aetiological factor of diet-related disease. Indices of carbohydrate quality featuring various ratios of carbohydrates-to-dietary fibre-to-sugar have been associated with improved product and/or diet quality in westernised countries. Carbohydrate intake is especially high in Asia Pacific. Thus, this study evaluated the ability of such carbohydrate metrics to discriminate the nutritional quality of carbohydrate-rich packaged foods and beverages in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, with an additional focus on beverages. This evaluation was conducted by comparing product nutritional composition and assessing products against three national nutrient profiling models. Results showed that Australia had the highest proportion of products meeting all metrics, compared to the Southeast Asian countries. Beverages had a low adherence to all metrics compared to solid foods. Across the five countries, both processed food and beverages meeting the metrics generally contained higher dietary fibre, protein, and certain vitamins and minerals whilst having lower energy, total sugars, free sugars, trans fat and cholesterol content compared to products not meeting the metrics. The metrics were also aligned with national nutrient profiling models to identify nutritious products. In conclusion, these metrics allowed us to discriminate product nutritional quality in the countries assessed and are applicable to beverages. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Source Title: Nutrients
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/197560
ISSN: 20726643
DOI: 10.3390/nu12092771
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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