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. 2023 May 16;10:1207555. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1207555

Corrigendum: Characterization of the degree of food processing in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition: application of the Nova classification and validation using selected biomarkers of food processing

Inge Huybrechts 1,*, Fernanda Rauber 2,3, Geneviève Nicolas 1, Corinne Casagrande 1, Nathalie Kliemann 1, Roland Wedekind 1, Carine Biessy 1, Augustin Scalbert 1, Mathilde Touvier 4, Krasimira Aleksandrova 5,6, Paula Jakszyn 7,8, Guri Skeie 9, Rashmita Bajracharya 10, Jolanda M A Boer 11, Yan Borné 12, Veronique Chajes 1, Christina C Dahm 13, Lucia Dansero 14, Marcela Guevara 15,16,17, Alicia K Heath 18, Daniel B Ibsen 13,19,20,21, Keren Papier 22, Verena Katzke 10, Cecilie Kyrø 23, Giovanna Masala 24, Esther Molina-Montes 25,26,27,28, Oliver J K Robinson 29, Carmen Santiuste de Pablos 26,30, Matthias B Schulze 31,32, Vittorio Simeon 33, Emily Sonestedt 12, Anne Tjønneland 23, Rosario Tumino 34, Yvonne T van der Schouw 35, W M Monique Verschuren 11,35, Beatrice Vozar 1, Anna Winkvist 36,37, Marc J Gunter 1, Carlos A Monteiro 3,38, Christopher Millett 2,39, Renata Bertazzi Levy 2,3
PMCID: PMC10227715  PMID: 37260516

In the published article, there was an error in Table 4 as published. A column subheading was inserted in the middle of the table by mistake. Furthermore, two values in the “R (Unadjusted association)” column were not rounded. This subheading was removed. The corrected Table 4 appears below.

Table 4.

Unadjusted associations of urinary methylsyringol sulfate with the daily grams, energy, % grams and % energy intake from the 4 different Nova groups and middle bound scenario (N = 417).

Middle bound Pearson correlation Spearman correlation
R (Unadjusted association) p -value (unadjusted) R (Unadjusted association) p -value (unadjusted)
Expressed in g/day
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 0.16 0.001 0.22 <0.0001
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.20 0.0001 −0.30 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 0.13 0.007 0.12 0.01
Processed foods—G3 excluding alcohol intake −0.07 0.14 −0.04 0.44
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.35 <0.0001 0.40 <0.0001
Ultra-processed foods—G4 excluding alcohol intake 0.35 <0.0001 0.39 <0.0001
Expressed in kcal/day
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 −0.24 <0.0001 −0.27 <0.0001
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.30 <0.0001 −0.36 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 0.06 0.26 0.10 0.03
Processed foods—G3 excluding alcohol intake 0.03 0.55 0.08 0.10
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.37 <0.0001 0.41 <0.0001
Ultra-processed foods—G4 excluding alcohol intake 0.37 <0.0001 0.40 <0.0001
Expressed in % g/day including alcohol intake
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 −0.06 0.23 −0.07 0.18
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.37 <0.0001 −0.41 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 −0.07 0.172 −0.07 0.15
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.25 <0.0001 0.29 <0.0001
Expressed in % kcal/day including alcohol intake
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 −0.33 <0.0001 −0.37 <0.0001
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.39 <0.0001 −0.42 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 0.04 0.36 0.07 0.15
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.41 <0.0001 0.43 <0.0001
Expressed in % g/day excluding alcohol intake
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 −0.0003 0.996 −0.02 0.75
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.36 <0.0001 −0.39 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 −0.26 <0.0001 −0.24 <0.0001
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.27 <0.0001 0.32 <0.0001
Expressed in % kcal/day excluding alcohol intake
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods—G1 −0.32 <0.0001 −0.36 <0.0001
Processed culinary ingredients—G2 −0.38 <0.0001 −0.41 <0.0001
Processed foods—G3 0.02 0.70 0.05 0.35
Ultra-processed foods—G4 0.42 <0.0001 0.43 <0.0001

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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