Alternative approaches to the calculation of nutrient density

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 703-709

  Kennedy, Eileen ^a   Racsa, Patrick ^a   Dallal, Gerard ^a   Lichtenstein, Alice H ^a   Goldberg, Jeanne ^a   Jacques, Paul ^a   Hyatt, Raymond ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food quality score; Front of pack labeling; Nutrient density; Nutrition profiling

Indexed keywords

FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; REVIEW; VEGETABLE; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; HEALTH PROMOTION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; VEGETABLES;

EID: 60549115644     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2008.00124.x     Document Type: Review

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