Assessment of food claims and nutritional quality on baby foods

• Author(s): Matias, Filipa ; Vaz, Rui ; Assunção, Ricardo ; Santos, Mariana ; Castanheira, Isabel
• Date: 2021
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/8079
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Baby Foods; Commercially Available Complementary Foods; Segurança Alimentar; Composição dos Alimentos
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Description

Introduction: As the use of commercially available complementary foods (CACFs) has increased, it became crucial that appropriate infant feeding is protected and consumers are not mislead by statements about the composition of the product or its nutrition or health related properties. WHO published a report which proposed criteria for identifying products appropriate for promotion for infants and young children (IYC) up to 36 months. Aims: This study investigated the food claims available on CACFs and its relation with nutritional quality, using the set of criteria developed by WHO.