Healthy Foods and Healthy Diets. How Government Policies Can Steer Food Reformulation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Food Reformulation Policies
3. Review Aims and Methodology
4. Reformulation, Derived Food Products and Consumer Choice
5. How Can Governments Incentivize Food Reformulation?
5.1. Helping to Create a Healthier Food Supply
5.2. Helping to Create a Demand for Nutritionally Balanced Products
5.3. Interplay between Supply and Demand
6. How Could Food Reformulation Policies Improve Population Health?
7. Limiting Detrimental Choices and Compensation
8. Ensuring an Improvement in Food Composition
9. Challenges to Monitor the Effect of Food Reformulation Policies
10. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Gressier, M.; Sassi, F.; Frost, G. Healthy Foods and Healthy Diets. How Government Policies Can Steer Food Reformulation. Nutrients 2020, 12, 1992. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12071992
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Chicago/Turabian StyleGressier, Mathilde, Franco Sassi, and Gary Frost. 2020. "Healthy Foods and Healthy Diets. How Government Policies Can Steer Food Reformulation" Nutrients 12, no. 7: 1992. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12071992