. 2019 Jan 29;11(2):287. doi: 10.3390/nu11020287

Table 3.

Comparison of the nutritional composition of foods and beverages with (n = 1708) and without (n = 4911) claims by food categories mean and sales weighted mean (SW M.).

Nutrition Information (per 100 g or per 100 mL)		Presence of NHC	Beverages	Bread and Bakery Products	Cereal and Cereal Products	Confectionery	Convenience Foods	Dairy	Edible Oils and Emulsions	Eggs	Fish and Fish Products	Foods for Specific Dietary Use	Fruit and Vegetables	Meat and Meat Products	Sauces and Spreads	Snackfoods
Energy (kJ)	Mean	Claim	117 *	1667 *	1572 *	1204 *	864 *	341 *	3140	615	818	339 *	950 *	673 *	1430	1986
	Mean	No Claim	155 *	1750 *	1458 *	2064 *	519 *	764*	3260	617	905	140 *	799 *	1177 *	1121	2051
	SW M.	Claim	35	1561	1573	1167	893	266	3072	639	816	383	963	671	1256	2019
	SW M.	No Claim	132	1595	1482	2108	571	440	3262	611	1248	207	509	1,075	1667	2054
Total fat (g)	Mean	Claim	0.1 *	13.0 *	5.7 *	4.0 *	9.4 *	3.1 *	84.7	10.4	13.5	1.5 *	8.3	8.7 *	31.4 *	22.2
	Mean	No Claim	0.2 *	16.5 *	4.3 *	25.2 *	5.1 *	11.9 *	87.8	10.6	15.2	0.3 *	9.7	23.1 *	20.7 *	24.1
	SW M.	Claim	0.0	10.8	4.7	2.4	10.0	2.6	82.9	11.1	14.4	2.5	12.4	10.1	30.1	23.8
	SW M.	No Claim	0.1	12.8	2.8	26.6	5.7	6.9	88.0	10.5	25.2	0.3	4.8	21.8	31.7	24.5
Saturated fat (g)	Mean	Claim	0.0 *	5.3 *	1.9 *	2.1 *	2.0	1.9 *	16.8 *	2.7	2.7	0.7	3.3	2.3 *	5.0	4.1 *
	Mean	No Claim	0.2 *	7.9 *	1.8 *	13.7 *	1.7	7.9 *	27.9 *	2.9	2.4	0.1	1.9	7.3 *	3.9	7.1 *
	SW M.	Claim	0.0	4.1	1.6	1.3	2.0	1.7	12.5	3.0	3.0	1.5	5.9	3.2	3.4	2.8
	SW M.	No Claim	0.0	6.2	1.0	14.2	1.7	4.5	23.6	2.9	3.8	0.1	0.8	6.6	5.7	6.8
Carbohydrates (g)	Mean	Claim	6.4 *	59.3	66.7 *	76.4 *	15.0	8.8 *	0.2 *	0.7	1.8	14.4	33.8 *	2.7	10.5	55.5
	Mean	No Claim	8.3 *	59.1	65.7 *	60.2 *	13.5	12.4 *	0.4 *	1.1	3.4	7.0	20.1 *	2.3	16.1	58.1
	SW M.	Claim	1.9	55.7	69.8	76.4	15.3	6.3	0.2	1.2	3.0	13.8	22.9	1.7	6.8	58.0
	SW M.	No Claim	7.6	57.7	70.1	60.1	14.8	6.8	0.3	1.0	2.5	10.6	13.7	1.4	24.7	57.1
Total sugars (g)	Mean	Claim	5.8 *	11.6 *	12.8 *	28.1 *	2.0	7.4 *	0.2 *	0.6	1.1	8.2	25.4 *	0.7	6.5	4.1
	Mean	No Claim	7.6 *	23.4 *	5.1 *	50.5 *	1.9	10.3 *	0.2 *	0.8	0.7	5.0	14.0 *	0.6	12.3	3.1
	SW M.	Claim	1.8	11.4	14.3	30.9	1.4	5.9	0.2	1.0	2.4	9.3	15.0	0.7	4.9	4.0
	SW M.	No Claim	7.2	19.5	2.9	52.2	1.9	6.3	0.2	0.8	0.5	7.6	7.3	0.4	22.7	2.4
Fiber (g)	Mean	Claim	0.2	6.4 *	7.2 *	1.3 *	2.6	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.7 *	0.9 *	5.4	1.4 *	3.2	4.9
	Mean	No Claim	0.1	2.9 *	3.4 *	2.9 *	1.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.4 *	0.4 *	4.3	0.9 *	1.8	4.0
	SW M.	Claim	0.0	6.9	6.2	0.8	2.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	1.2	1.5	6.0	0.8	1.7	4.4
	SW M.	No Claim	0.1	2.7	2.9	2.5	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.6	3.9	0.8	2.0	3.9
Protein (g)	Mean	Claim	0.2 *	8.5 *	10.4	1.9 *	13.9 *	4.3 *	0.2 *	12.2	17.0	1.8 *	4.4 *	16.8 *	6.5	9.5
	Mean	No Claim	0.3 *	6.9 *	10.1	5.5 *	5.4 *	6.5 *	0.2 *	12.2	16.6	0.5 *	5.0 *	16.5 *	4.0	8.2
	SW M.	Claim	0.0	9.5	10.1	0.8	14.6	3.7	0.1	12.1	13.6	3.0	6.0	15.7	1.8	6.9
	SW M.	No Claim	0.1	7.3	9.8	5.7	5.6	4.0	0.2	12.2	16.1	0.6	4.4	14.1	3.4	8.5
Salt (g)	Mean	Claim	0.0 *	0.9 *	0.3 *	0.1 *	1.4 *	0.2 *	0.2	0.4	1.0 *	0.1 *	0.3 *	1.5 *	1.2	1.7 *
	Mean	No Claim	0.0 *	0.8 *	0.4 *	0.2 *	1.0 *	0.5*	0.1	0.3	1.8 *	0.0 *	0.7 *	2.1 *	2.2	2.0 *
	SW M.	Claim	0.1	1.0	0.3	0.0	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.9	0.1	0.6	1.8	1.4	1.8
	SW M.	No Claim	0.0	0.8	0.2	0.2	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.4	1.1	0.0	0.6	2.2	1.1	2.0

Note: * denotes statistically significant difference (p < 0.05). All values are based on nutritional information, per 100 g or per 100 mL for products as consumed. Claim states for any nutrition or health claims as defined within the EU Regulation 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims [11].