Table 1.
Date of Data Collection | Data Source | Country | Total No. of Products Collected | Products with Sodium Data | Products with Sodium Data “as Sold” | Products with Sodium Data “as Prepared” | Average Pack Size (g) | Average Serving Size (g) as Prepared | |||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||||
2016 | FCD | UK | 137 | 132 | 96 | 11 | 8 | 121 | 92 | 84 | 282 |
2015 | FCD | New Zealand | 85 | 83 | 98 | 42 | 51 | 41 | 49 | 87 | 343 |
2014 | FCD | Australia | 58 | 58 | 100 | 9 | 16 | 49 | 84 | 86 | 308 |
2015 | FCD | China | 283 | 283 | 100 | 283 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 98 | - |
2012 | FCD | India | 47 | 15 | 32 | 15 | 100 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
2013 | Shop survey | Samoa | 44 | 43 | 98 | 28 | 65 | 15 | 35 | 69 | - |
2015 | FCD | South Africa | 37 | 37 | 100 | 28 | 76 | 9 | 24 | 72 | 300 |
2013 | Shop survey | Fiji | 28 | 28 | 100 | 23 | 82 | 5 | 18 | 69 | 143 |
2015 | Shop survey | Indonesia | 28 | 28 | 100 | 28 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 76 | - |
2013 | FCD | Costa Rica | 18 | 18 | 100 | 18 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 57 | - |
Totals | 765 | 725 * | 95 | 485 | 67 | 240 | 33 | 78 | 275 |
- data not available.* Products that listed sodium or salt information, but did not state if as sold or as prepared were excluded from further analysis (n = 5).