Table 3.

Proportion of products carrying disease risk reduction claims per Schedule M^a food categories in FLIP 2010-2013

Disease Risk Reduction Claimsb,c	FLIP 2010d,e		FLIP 2013g				p value overalli
	Top food product categories with disease risk reduction claims in FLIP 2010a,f		Top food product categories with disease risk reduction claims in FLIP 2013a,h
	%	Food categorya	n	%	Food categorya	%
Sodium and hypertension	0.10%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	11	0.07%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	0.71%	0.199
		Fruit and Fruit Juices			Vegetables	0.36%
Calcium and osteoporosis	0.10%	Fruit and Fruit Juices	8	0.05%	Fruit and Fruit Juices	0.37%	0.128
		Meal replacements			Dairy Products and Substitutes	0.32%
Dietary fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, trans fatty acids and coronary heart disease	1.10%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	106	0.69%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	4.76%	<0.001
		Bakery Products			Fats and Oils	2.99%
		Fats and Oils			Soups	2.85%
Fruits, vegetables and cancer	0.50%	Fruit and Fruit Juices	65	0.43%	Fruit and Fruit Juices	3.49%	0.283
		Vegetables			Vegetables	3.00%
					Legumes	1.11%
Plant sterols and cholesterol lowering	-		9	0.06%	Fats and Oils	0.75%	-
					Fruit and Fruit Juices	0.46%
Oat products and cholesterol lowering	-		49	0.32%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	4.45%	-
					Bakery Products	0.24%
Pysllium products and cholesterol lowering	-		1	0.01%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	0.10%	-
Unsaturated fat and cholesterol lowering	-		0	0.00%	n/a		-
Barley products and cholesterol lowering	-		1	0.01%	Cereals and Other Grain Products	0.10%	-

^aFood categories defined as per Schedule M of the Food and Drug Regulations [13, 27]

^bAll approved variations in wording were included

^cClassified according to Canadian regulations (sections B01.601 to B01.603 of the Food and Drug Regulations [13])

^dProportion of foods carrying each type of disease risk reduction claim in FLIP 2010 (n = 10,487), as reported in Schermel et al., Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2013;38(6):666-672 [24]

^eNumber of foods carrying each disease risk reduction claim was not reported for FLIP 2010 and therefore not included in this paper

^fProportion of foods carrying a disease risk reduction claim within each Schedule M food category was not reported for FLIP 2010 and therefore not included in this paper

^gNumber and proportion of foods carrying each type of disease risk reduction claim in FLIP 2013 (n = 15,286)

^hProportion of foods carrying a disease risk reduction claim in the top Schedule M food categories in FLIP 2013

ⁱStatistical difference in the overall proportion of foods carrying disease risk reduction claims between 2010 and 2013. A p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant