Table 2.

Inter-user agreement scores (%) for categorisation of foods from the five different databases, based on correct allocation to categories (n = 1719).

		Food Composition Tables
		France	UK	US	Brazil	China
Product Sample n (%)		267 (20%)	350 (10%)	702 (9%)	200 (10%)	200 (11%)
Products classified (%) to the same category by all three reviewers		68%	64%	51%	88%	64%
Kappa statistics	1–2 †	0.71	0.73	0.64	0.72	0.72
	2–3 †	0.84	0.71	0.68	0.81	0.70
	1–3 †	0.76	0.68	0.62	0.87	0.68

^† 1, 2 and 3 refer to the three research centres categorising the products: UK, France, Switzerland, respectively.