Research on Potential Impact of Choices on Nutrient intakes published in Nutrition Bulletin

July 19th, 2012

Research indicating that consumers who follow diets based on the Choices criteria could have better nutrient intakes than those who follow typical diets, has now been published in the Nutrition Bulletin, the prestigious journal of the British Nutrition Foundation. Using statistical modeling, researchers in the Netherlands found that if consumers replaced foods and beverages in their typical diets with products that comply with the choices criteria, intakes of saturated fat, trans fat, sodium and sugars decreased, while intake of beneficial nutrients, such as fibre, calcium, iron and folic acid received a boost. The preliminary findings were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Amsterdam in 2009 and published in a Belgian nutrition journal.