A simple visual model to compare existing nutrient profiling schemes

Food and Nutrition Research

Volumn 52, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Verhagen, Hans ^a   Van Den Berg, Henk ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b The Netherlands Nutrition Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nutrient profiles; Schemes; Simple visual model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956174533     PISSN: 16546628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v52i0.1649     Document Type: Article

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