Table 3.
Products n (%) not meeting the Nestlé Nutritional Profiling System criteria (NNPS Fail) due to different nutrient targets per country.
| Overall n (%) |
France n (%) |
UK n (%) |
China n (%) |
Brazil n (%) |
US n (%) |
p-Value (χ2) † | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of nutrient criteria not met * | one criterion only | 1797 | 40% | 194 | 31% | 341 | 33% | 170 | 43% | 232 | 39% | 860 | 45% | 0.09 |
| two criteria | 1244 | 27% | 194 | 31% | 334 | 33% | 75 | 19% | 156 | 26% | 485 | 25% | 0.34 | |
| three criteria | 880 | 19% | 147 | 24% | 213 | 21% | 91 | 23% | 131 | 22% | 298 | 16% | 0.58 | |
| more than three criteria | 624 | 14% | 84 | 14% | 132 | 13% | 60 | 15% | 71 | 12% | 277 | 14% | 0.94 | |
| Products that do not meet the criterion - # | energy | 1347 | 19% | 188 | 21% | 305 | 20% | 160 | 26% | 200 | 20% | 494 | 16% | 0.72 |
| total fat | 2746 | 38% | 383 | 42% | 720 | 47% | 192 | 31% | 389 | 39% | 1062 | 34% | 0.06 | |
| saturated fat | 2116 | 29% | 399 | 44% | 564 | 37% | 168 | 27% | 276 | 28% | 709 | 23% | 0.002 | |
| added sugar | 1119 | 16% | 149 | 16% | 278 | 18% | 103 | 17% | 129 | 13% | 460 | 15% | 0.66 | |
| sodium | 1707 | 24% | 202 | 22% | 335 | 22% | 117 | 19% | 163 | 17% | 890 | 28% | 0.29 | |
| protein # | 498 | 14% | 28 | 4% | 171 | 25% | 55 | 24% | 51 | 9% | 193 | 13% | 0.000 | |
| calcium # | 216 | 43% | 37 | 41% | 19 | 22% | 38 | 46% | 30 | 57% | 92 | 49% | 0.000 | |
| fibre # | 36 | 38% | - | - | 0% | 6 | 21% | 1 | 25% | 29 | 48% | 0.06 | ||
† chi-squares between countries. * % calculated on the total number of products that do not meet the criteria. # % calculated based on the total number of product to which the criteria apply (i.e., all products for energy, total fat, saturated fat, added sugars and sodium, and specific categories only for protein, calcium and fibre).