Table 3.
Meals T2 | Meals T3 | Meals T4 | Snacks T2 1 | Snacks T3 | Snacks T4 | |
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n = 7 | n = 19 | n = 11 | n = 17 | n = 58 | n = 90 | |
Unregulated health-related ingredient claims (n = 774) | 3 (1–5) | 3 (0–6) | 3 (1–6) | 3 (0–7) | 4 (0–8) | 4 (0–10) * |
Unregulated natural/organic claims (n = 102) | 0 (0–2) | 1 (0–1) | 1 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) | 0 (0–2) | 1 (0–3) * |
Unregulated environmental claims (n = 101) | 0 (0) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) ** | 0 (0–1) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–3) |
Unregulated “other” claims (n = 96) | 0 (0) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–5) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–1) | 1 (0–7) * |
Regulated nutrition-content claims (n = 216) | 2 (0–5) | 1 (1–4) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–4) |
Regulated health claims (n = 33) | 1 (0–5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–6) | 0 (0–3) |
Total unregulated claims (n = 1073) | 3 (1–6) | 3 (0–7) | 3 (5–8) * | 4 (0–9) | 5 (0–10) | 7 (2–13) ** |
Total regulated claims (n = 249) | 3 (0–10) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–4) | 1 (0–10) | 1 (0–4) |
Total claims (n = 1322) | 6 (3–11) | 5 (0–9) | 5 (5–12) * | 5 (0–10) | 6 (0–18) | 8 (2–14) ** |
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.001 between time periods. T1 excluded because of no available on-pack data. T2: Time-period 2 (2003–2008); T3: Time-period 3 (2009–2014); T4: Time-period 4 (2014–2020). 1 Total numbers have been adjusted to exclude the products without photos or descriptive data.