. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 18.

Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2010 Jan 28;13(8):1178–1185. doi: 10.1017/S1368980009993028

Table 2.

Seven levels of consumption constraints introduced¹ into the linear programming models.

Levels	Added constraints
1	None
2	The energy contributed by each food group was limited to between the 5^th and 95^th percentiles of the population distribution.
3	The energy contributed by each food sub-groups were limited to between the 5^th and 95^th percentiles of the population distribution.
4	The energy contributed by each food families were limited to between the 5^th and 95^th percentiles of the population distribution.
5	The amount of each food does not exceed the 95^th percentile of quantities consumed by adults (men or women) who consumed the food.
6	Exclusion of foods consumed by less than 2.5% of the population (i.e. 326 foods among 614)
7	Exclusion of foods consumed by less than 5% of the population (i.e. 409 foods among 614)

For a given level i of social acceptability (with i varying from 1 to 7), the constraints included the level i-1 are retained, and the constraint specific to level i is added