Table 1.

Eligibility criteria and parameters of Brazilian and Mexican nutrient profile models.

	Brazilian nutrient Profile model (BNPM) (IN 75, 2020)	Mexican nutrient Profile model (MNPM) (NOM-051, 2020)
FoPNL
FoPNL eligible products	Pre-packaged foods whose amounts of added sugars, saturated fats, or sodium are equal to or greater than the defined limits	Pre-packaged products with added free sugars, fats, or sodium and with the energy value, amount of free sugars, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium equal to or greater than the defined limits
FoPNL exempt products	✓ Fruits, vegetables, leguminous, tubers, cereals, nuts, chestnuts, seeds and mushrooms* ✓ Flours* ✓ Packaged, chilled, or frozen meat and fish* ✓ Eggs* ✓ Fermented milk* ✓ Cheeses* ✓ Milk of all species of mammalian animals ✓ Powdered milk ✓ Olive oil and other vegetable oils, cold-pressed or refined ✓ Salt for human consumption ✓ Infant formulas ✓ Enteral nutrition formulas ✓ Weight control foods ✓ Food supplements ✓ Alcoholic beverages ✓ Products intended exclusively for industrial processing or food service ✓ Food additives and technology adjuvants	✓ Infant formulas and follow-on formula ✓ Non-alcoholic foods and beverages for infants and young children with nutritional specifications for fats, sugars, and sodium ✓ Vegetable oils, vegetable or animal fats, sugar, honey, iodized salt, and fluoridated iodized salt, as well as cereal flours
	Solids/100 g	Liquids/100 mL	Solids/100 g		Liquids/100 mL
Sugars	≥15 g Added sugar	≥7.5g Added sugara	≥10% of total energy from free sugarsb
Saturated fats	≥6 g	≥3 g	≥10% of total energy from saturated fats
Sodium	≥600 mg	≥300 mg	≥1 mg of sodium per kcal or ≥300 mg Calorie-free drinks: ≥45 mg of sodium
Energy	NA	NA	≥275 total kcal		≥70 total kcal or ≥8 kcal from free sugars
Trans fats	NA	NA	≥1% of total energy from trans fats
Non-sugar sweeteners	NA	NA	Presence
Caffeine	NA	NA	Presence

^*As long as no ingredients that increase the added sugars value or significant nutritional value of saturated fats or sodium are added to the product, according to the established limits.

NA, not applicable (nutrient/ingredient not considered).

^aAdded sugar considering Brazilian Legislation are all monosaccharides and disaccharides added during food processing, including fractions of monosaccharides and disaccharides from the addition of the ingredients such as cane sugar, beet sugar, sugars from other sources, honey, molasses, “rapadura,” cane juice, extract malt, sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose, dextrose, inverted sugar, syrups, maltodextrins, and other hydrolyzed carbohydrates and ingredients with the addition of any of the foregoing ingredients, with the exception of polyols, added sugars consumed by fermentation or non-enzymatic browning and sugars naturally present in milk and dairy products and sugars naturally present in vegetables, including fruits (whole, in pieces, in powder, dehydrated, in pulps, in purees, in whole juices, in reconstituted juices, and in concentrated juices) (21). In the present study, we could not consider maltodextrins as added sugar in the estimation of added sugars.

^bFree sugars, considering Mexican Legislation, are available monosaccharides and disaccharides added (or added sugars) to foods and non-alcoholic beverages by the manufacturer, in addition to sugars that are naturally present in honey, syrups, and fruit or vegetable juices (6).