Evaluating Nutrient-Based Indices against Food- and Diet-Based Indices to Assess the Health Potential of Foods: How Does the Australian Health Star Rating System Perform after Five Years?

Sarah Dickie; Julie Woods; Phillip Baker; Leonie Elizabeth; Mark Lawrence

doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12051463

doi.org/10.3390/nu12051463

Evaluating Nutrient-Based Indices against Food- and Diet-Based Indices to Assess the Health Potential of Foods: How Does the Australian Health Star Rating System Perform after Five Years?

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Nutrients5.90

Volume: 12, Issue: 5, Pages: 1463 - 1463

Published: May 18, 2020

Abstract

Nutrient-based indices are commonly used to assess the health potential of individual foods for nutrition policy actions. This study aimed to evaluate the nutrient profile-informed Australian Health Star Rating (HSR), against NOVA and an index informed by the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs), to determine the extent of alignment. All products displaying an HSR label in the Australian marketplace between June 2014 and June 2019 were extracted...