Table 6.

Examples of most environmentally sustainable, nutritious, and affordable food products per 100 kcal (scoring 3 points).

Food Group		NOVA 1	NOVA 3	NOVA 4
Fruit and vegetables	Low total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Brussels sprouts (fresh), raw or boiled carrots, parsnips, boiled corn on the cob (kernels only boiled)	Courgettes sauteed in butter or margarine, parsnip roast in dripping or lard, tomatoes fried in blended oil or dripping or oil, cherries or peaches canned in syrup, homemade vegetable lasagne	Fruit pie filling (canned), vegetable lasagne purchased, veggie burger purchased (grilled), vegetable curry ready meal, vegetable fingers breadcrumbed (grilled), vegetable pancakes fried in vegetable oil
	High total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Avocado pear flesh only, dried currants, dates, raisins or banana	Vegetable pie one crust, prunes canned in syrup, fruit and syrup, vegetable sausage roll, leeks fried in olive oil, spring onions fried in olive oil	Cauliflower bhaji/pakora, onion ring (frozen) fried in lard, vegetarian mince (frozen), vegetable and cheese pie (retail), vegetable fingers breadcrumbed (fried)
Potatoes, bread, rice, pasta, and other starchy carbohydrates	Low total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Pearl barley, flour (various types), raw oatmeal, quaker, instant oats, boiled macaroni, noodles, pasta noodles, spaghetti, raw, boiled or baked, potatoes, oats with losses on boiling, couscous cooked	Bread granary, bread wholemeal (toasted), potato roasted in dripping or lard, oatmeal bread toasted, multi-seed bread, wholemeal only toasted, porridge made with all whole milk no added salt	Pasta, spaghetti canned in tomato sauce, English muffins (wholemeal or bran), chips frozen and fried in oil, potato croquettes (grilled), wheat flake cereal with dried fruit, instant hot oat cereal (not flavoured, dry weight, fortified)
	High total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Egg pasta noodles (dried)	Potato slices battered in blended veg oil, potato slices (old) sauteed in butter, cheese and onion potato pie (shortcrust pastry), bread toasted (wholemeal paratha)	Fruit loaf purchased, wholemeal bread (fried), muffins (toasted), honey-coated puffed wheat (including quaker sugar puffs and own brand), fruit and fibre, crispbreads, fine cut frozen chips (fried), potato salad (canned), scones, chocolate muffins, low-fat fruit and fibre own brand focaccia (plain, or with garlic or herbs)
Beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat, and other proteins	Low total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Soya mince granules, herring raw or grilled, mussels boiled, beans dried, frozen boiled, soya beans boiled, lentils (split) boiled, peas (frozen) boiled, chickpeas dried, peas frozen.	Kidney (pigs) fried or grilled, herring (no bone, coated, dripping or lard), homemade curry (red lentil) with butter, peas processed (canned), three-bean salad, salmon fishcakes (grilled), beans (blackeye) canned, fish chowder	Sardines (brisling and sild) canned in tomato sauce, baked beans (canned, low sugar/no added sugar), ready meal lentil onion curry with yellow lentils, vegetarian sausages (cheese-based), baked falafel (purchased)
	High total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Pumpkin, sunflower, or sesame seeds, almond kernels, nut kernels, pecan nuts, cashew nuts	Quiche Lorraine, sprats fried in blended oil, sprats coated fried in dripping or lard or oil, whitebait (coated) fried in blended oil or dripping, mixed salted nuts, black pudding (battered)	Hummus (canned), peanut butter (smooth), chicken and mushroom pancakes (purchased, grilled with oil)
Dairy and alternatives	Low total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	N/A	Soya alternative to milk (unsweetened)	Soya alternative to milk, yoghurt (soya alternative) with fruit pieces, cream desserts, probiotic yoghurt with fruit and/or milkshake (purchased) made with semi-skimmed milk, oat-based milk alternative (fortified), milkshake (purchased) made with semi-skimmed milk
	High total fats, salt and/or total sugar content	Dried skimmed milk	N/A	Milk (condensed, skimmed, sweetened), whole sweetened milk, skimmed with added non-milk fat, evaporated milk

N/A = Items not found within this category. High sugar products are defined as food with ≥22.5 g/100 g or drinks with ≥11.25 g/100 g of total sugar; high-fat products are defined as food with ≥17.5 g/100 g of fat or ≥ 5.0 g/100 g saturated fat or drinks ≥8.75 g/100 g of fat or ≥2.5 g/100 g of saturated fat; high salt defined as food with ≥1.5 g/100 g of salt or drinks ≥0.75 g/100 g of salt.