Food Reformulation Research Paper Library

Food Reformulation Research Paper Library

Find here a collection of research papers from various countries and organisations.

• General

  • Global nutritional challenges of reformulated food: A review 
  • What is the impact of food reformulation on individuals' behaviour, nutrient intakes and health status? A systematic review of empirical evidence 

• Europe

  • Reformulation across Europe: Part 1
  • Reformulation across Europe: Part 2
  • Nutrients | Free Full-Text | Sugars, Salt, Saturated Fat and Fibre Purchased through Packaged Food and Soft Drinks in Europe 2015–2018: Are We Making Progress?

• Chile

  • Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study -
  • Anticipatory effects of the implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on food and beverage product reformulation - Kanter - 2019

• United Kingdom

  • Assessing the healthiness of UK food companies’ product portfolios using food sales and nutrient composition data 
  • The sugar content of foods in the UK by category and company: A repeated cross-sectional study, 2015-2018
  • Changes in the salt content of packaged foods sold in supermarkets between 2015–2020 in the United Kingdom: A repeated cross-sectional study

• New Zealand

  • Nutrients | Free Full-Text | Comparison of Healthiness, Labelling, and Price between Private and Branded Label Packaged Foods in New Zealand (2015–2019)
  • Which companies dominate the packaged food supply of New Zealand and how healthy are their products?

• Canada

  • The relationship between voluntary product (re) formulation commitments and changes in the nutritional quality of products offered by the top packaged food and beverage companies in Canada from 2013 to 2017

• Spain

  Sugar Content in Processed Foods in Spain and a Comparison of Mandatory Nutrition Labelling and Laboratory Values

• Monitoring food reformulation

  • Mandatory salt targets: a key policy tool for global salt reduction efforts
  • Estimated health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of implementing WHO's sodium benchmarks for packaged foods in India: a modelling study
  • Estimated health effect, cost, and cost-effectiveness of mandating sodium benchmarks in Australia's packaged foods: a modelling study
  • Frontiers | Development of the Food Label Information Program: A Comprehensive Canadian Branded Food Composition Database

• CLAS: Composition and Labelling Information System in Slovenia

  • Frontiers | Branded Foods Databases as a Tool to Support Nutrition Research and Monitoring of the Food Supply: Insights From the Slovenian Composition and Labeling Information System

• Taxation

  • An examination of Ireland’s sugar sweetened beverage tax (sugar tax) in practice
  • Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in Europe: learning for the future
  • Review: Effectiveness and policy implications of health taxes on foods high in fat, salt, and sugar
  • Labelling changes in response to a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

• The World Health Organisation (WHO)

  • WHO Policy Brief: Reformulation of food and beverage products for healthier diets: policy brief (who.int)
  • WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022
  • WHO global sodium benchmarks for different food categories

• Obesity

  • Food environment and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Smart food policies for obesity prevention  
  • Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity.

• Out of Home Food Environment

  • Effect of calorie labelling in the out-of-home food sector on adult obesity prevalence, cardiovascular mortality, and social inequalities in England: a modelling study
  • Assessing the healthiness of menus of all out-of-home food outlets and its socioeconomic patterns in Great Britain
  • The out-of-home food environment: report of a WHO Regional Office for Europe and Public Health England expert meeting
  • Eating out of Home: Influence on Nutrition, Health, and Policies: A Scoping Review
  • Relationship between mean daily energy intake and frequency of consumption of out-of-home meals in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey
  • The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready‐to‐eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review
  • Barriers, Enablers, and Perceptions on Dietary Salt Reduction in the Out-of-Home Sectors: A Scoping Review

• Commercially Available Complementary Foods

  • Evaluation of the quality and safety of commercial complementary foods: Implications for nutrient adequacy and conformance with national and international standards
  • Nutrient and promotion profile model: supporting appropriate promotion of food products for infants and young children 6–36 months in the WHO European Region