Table 4.
Screening questionnaire of highly processed food consumption (sQ-HPF)
| What was your average frequency of consumption over the past year of… | Criteria for 1 point |
Score (0 or 1) |
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| Q1. Fatty dairy products (cream, cured or semi-cured cheese, processed soft cheese wedges)? | > = 2 t/week | |||||||||||||
| Q2. Sugary dairy products (condensed milk, industrially produced milkshakes, flavored Petit Suisse yogurt, custard, crème caramel flan, pudding)? | > 3 t/month | |||||||||||||
| Q3. Cured meats (serrano ham, sandwich (deli) ham, cured cold meats, pâté, bacon, marbling)? | > = 1 t/day | |||||||||||||
| Q4. Fats (margarine, butter, lard (animal fat))? | > 3 t/month | |||||||||||||
| Q5. Fermented alcohols (rosé wine, muscatel wine, young red wine, aged red wine, white wine, Spanish sparkling wine (cava), beer)? | > 1 t/day | |||||||||||||
| Q6. Distilled alcohols (liquors, anisette, whisky, gin, vodka, cognac)? | > 3 t/month | |||||||||||||
| Q7. Sugary and artificially sweetened drinks (soft drinks, artificially sweetened drinks, bottled juice, grape must)? | > = 2 t/week | |||||||||||||
| Q8. Sweets (ice-cream and sorbets, canned fruit in juice or syrup, biscuits, whole meal biscuits, chocolate biscuits, honey, homemade baking products, industrially produced confectionery, donuts, muffins, cupcakes, industrially produced cakes, churros, chocolates, soluble cocoa powder, nougat, marzipan, shortbread biscuits, jam)? | > 1 t/day | |||||||||||||
| Q9. Snacks (packaged potato crisps/chips, packaged snacks)? | > 3 t/month | |||||||||||||
| Q10. Ready To Eat products (pizza, croquettes, instant soup)? | > 3 t/month | |||||||||||||
| Q11. Refined cereals (white and sliced bread, breakfast cereals, Spaghetti, macaroni, Spanish noodles, white rice)? | > = 2 t/week | |||||||||||||
| Q12. Sauces (mustard, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, Ketchup)? | > 1 t/week | |||||||||||||
| Q13. Additives (sugar, table salt)? | > 3 t/day | |||||||||||||
| Q14. Fried foods (eat out and homemade)? | > = 2 t/week | |||||||||||||
| TOTAL SCORE: | ||||||||||||||
| Equivalency between sQ-HPF score and the estimated percentage of HPF consumption over the total intake in grams per day: | ||||||||||||||
| Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| % HPF | 11.3 | 15 | 18.7 | 22.4 | 26.1 | 29.8 | 33.5 | 37.2 | 40.9 | 44.6 | 48.3 | 52 | 55.7 | 59.4 |