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. 2021 Jun 30;12(6):2435–2494. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmab053

TABLE 3a.

Nutrient components included in the Healthy Eating Indexes diet quality indicator1

Macronutrients Mineral
Authors, publication year (Ref) Indicator Sugar Alcohol Total fat Saturated fat Cholesterol Trans fat Sodium
Kennedy et al., 1995 (30) Healthy Eating Index (HEI)
Pinheiro and Atalah, 2005 (33) Healthy Eating Index Chile (HEI-CHL)
Glanville and McIntyre, 2006 (34) Healthy Eating Index Canada 2006 (HEI-C06)
Guenther et al., 2008 (35) Healthy Eating Index 2005 (HEI-2005)
Garriguet, 2009 (36) Healthy Eating Index Canada modification (HEI-C-mod)
De Andrade et al., 2010 (37) Healthy Eating Index Brazil (HEI-BRA14)
Woodruff et al., 2010 (38) Healthy Eating Index Canada (HEIC-2009)
Rydén and Hagfors, 2011 (39) Healthy Eating Index 2005 (HEI-2005)
González Rosendo et al., 2012 (40) Healthy Eating Index Mexico (HEI-MEX)
He et al., 2012 (41) Healthy Eating Index 2005 Canadian modification (HEIC-2005)
Guenther et al., 2013 (42) Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010)
Kyttälä et al., 2014 (44) Finnish Children Healthy Eating Index (FCHEI)
Rauber et al., 2014 (45) Healthy Eating Index Brazil (HEI-BRA14)
Dahm et al., 2016 (47) High School Alternative Healthy Eating Index (HS-AHEI)
Tugault-Lafleur et al., 2017 (48) School Healthy Eating Index (School-HEI)
Yuan et al., 2017 (49 ) Healthy Eating Index China (HEI-CHN)
Conceição et al., 2018 (50) Healthy Eating Index Brazil Infants (HEI-BRA-I)
Nshimyumukiz et al., 2018 ( 52) Healthy Eating Index Canada (HEI-C-2010)
Reedy et al., 2018 (53) Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015)
Brownlee et al., 2019 (54) Healthy Eating Index Singapur (HEI-SGP)
No. of studies using this component in this indicators subgroup 13 4 11 16 7 1 18
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Check symbol denotes that a component is included in the indicator.