Table A1.
Core, non-core and miscellaneous food and beverage coding system [23].
| Core and Healthy Food Categories |
|---|
| 1 Breads (include high fibre, low fat crackers), rice, pasta and noodles |
| 2 Low sugar and high fibre breakfast cereals (<20 g/100 g sugar and >5 g/100 g dietary fibre) |
| 3 Fruits and fruit products without added sugar |
| 4 Vegetables and vegetable products without added sugar |
| 5 Low fat/reduced fat milk, yoghurt, custard (<3 g/100 g fat) and cheese (<15 g/100 g fat; includes 50% reduced fat cheddar, ricotta and cottage) and their alternatives (e.g., soy) (including probiotic drinks) |
| 6 Meat and meat alternatives (not crumbed or battered) (includes fish, legumes, eggs and nuts and nut products, including peanut butter and excluding sugar coated or salted nuts) |
| 7 Core foods combined (including frozen meals (<10 g/serve fat), soups (<2 g/100 g fat, excludes dehydrated), sandwiches, mixed salads and low fat savoury sauces (<10 g/100 g fat; includes pasta simmer sauces) |
| 8 Baby foods (excluding milk formulae) |
| 9 Bottled water (including mineral and soda water) |
| Non-core and unhealthy food categories |
| 10 High sugar and/or low fibre breakfast cereals (>20 g/100 g or <5 g/100 g dietary fibre) |
| 11 Crumbed or battered meat and meat alternatives (e.g., fish fingers) and high fat frozen meals (>10 g/serve fat) |
| 12 Cakes, muffins, sweet biscuits, high fat savoury biscuits, pies and pastries |
| 13 Snack foods, including chips, savoury crisps, extruded snacks, popcorn, snack bars, muesli bars, sugar sweetened fruit and vegetable products (such as jelly fruit cups, fruit straps) and sugar coated nuts |
| 14 Fruit juice and fruit drinks |
| 15 Frozen/fried potato products (excluding packet crisps) |
| 16 Full cream milk, yoghurt, custard, dairy desserts (>3 g/100 g fat) and cheese (25% reduced fat and full fat varieties, and high salt cheese, including haloumi and feta) and their alternatives |
| 17 Ice cream and iced confection |
| 18 Chocolate and confectionery (including regular and sugar-free chewing gum and sugar) |
| 19 Fast food restaurants/meals (include general pizza, burgers, ‘healthy’ alternatives from fast food restaurants) |
| 20 High fat/sugar/salt spreads (includes yeast extracts, excludes peanut butter), oils, high fat savoury sauces (>10 g/100 fat), meal helpers (including stocks, tomato paste) and soups (>2 g/100 g fat tinned and all dehydrated) |
| 21 Sugar sweetened drinks including soft drinks, cordials, electrolyte drinks and flavour additions e.g., Milo) |
| 22 Alcohol |
| Miscellaneous |
| 23 Vitamin and mineral supplements |
| 24 Tea and coffee |
| 25 Supermarkets—advertising mostly non-core foods |
| 26 Supermarkets—advertising mostly core foods |
| 27 Supermarkets—non-specified (generic supermarket ads or not clearly for core or non-core) |
| 28 Baby and toddler milk formulae |
| 29 Home food delivery services |