"healthier" and "less healthy" classifications according to three nutrient profiling systems relative to nutrition and health claims on food labels

Acta Alimentaria

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 561-569

  Debeljak, K ^a   Pravst, I ^b   Kosmelj K ^a   Kac M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Nutrition Institute   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Breakfast cereals; FSANZ model; Health claims; Nutrient profiling; Nutrition claims; Traffic Light model; UK Ofcom model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947071919     PISSN: 01393006     EISSN: 15882535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/066.2015.44.0028     Document Type: Article

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