Nutrition Profiling Models: To support the role of foods in healthy dietary patterns
The overarching objective of any nutrient profiling model (NPM) informing a front-of-pack nutrition label (FOPNL) should be to support an accurate, science-based model that improves diet quality, delivers meaningful public health outcomes and enables consumers to choose nutrient dense foods rather than energy dense, nutrient poor foods as outlined in dietary guidelines worldwide. NPM should […]
Dairy’s role in healthy and sustainable diets
IDF has taken note of the FAO/WHO sustainable healthy diets guiding principlesi, based on the proposed definition that sustainable healthy diets are dietary patterns that promote all dimensions of individuals health and wellbeing; have low environmental pressure and impact; are accessible, affordable, safe and equitable; and are culturally acceptable. These principles translate this concept into […]
Linking Food Processing to Health Outcomes: A Simplistic and Dangerous Approach
IDF is concerned by the efforts of some policymakers to provide dietary guidance by ranking foods by degree of processing, by using the NOVA system. Although such approaches are presented as contributing to improved nutrition and health, IDF considers the use of the NOVA as well as similar systems that attribute nutritional superiority to less […]
Holistic view of proteins: amino acids and post-translational modifications
Proteins are essential in every part of life. They are a source of essential amino acids, which are the essential building blocks for in vivo protein synthesis. However, considering proteins only as a source of essential amino acids is reductionistic and applies only to storage proteins.
