Reliability of a systematic methodology to estimate added sugars content of foods when applied to a recent Australian food composition database

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-42

  Louie, Jimmy Chun Yu ^a   Lei, Linggang ^a   Rangan, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Added sugars; AUSNUT2011 2013; Australia; Food analysis; Food composition; Food composition database; Reliability; Repeatability; Systematic methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947784043     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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