eprintid: 10176857 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/68/57 datestamp: 2023-09-19 11:41:29 lastmod: 2023-09-19 11:41:29 status_changed: 2023-09-19 11:41:29 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Pinho-Gomes, AC creators_name: Kaur, A creators_name: Scarborough, P creators_name: Rayner, M title: Are the eatwell guide and nutrient profiling models consistent in the UK? ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: DD4 divisions: H99 keywords: Nutrient profiling model; food-based dietary guidelines; food policy; diet note: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: A nutrient profiling model (NPM) was developed in 2005 in the UK to regulate the marketing of foods to children. It was revised in 2018, but the new version has not been finalised. The Eatwell Guide (EWG) is the UK’s official food-based dietary guidelines. The aim of this study was to evaluate the agreement between the 2005 and 2018 versions of the NPM and the EWG. Using recent National Diet and Nutrition Surveys, we estimated the healthiness of individual diets based on an EWG dietary score and a NPM dietary index. We then compared the percentage of agreement and Cohen’s kappa for each combination of the EWG score and NPM index across the range of observed values for the 2005 and 2018 versions. A total of 3028 individual diets were assessed. Individuals with a higher (i.e., healthier) EWG score consumed a diet with, on average, a lower (i.e., healthier) NPM index both for the 2005 and 2018 versions. Overall, there was good agreement between the EWG score and the NPM dietary index at assessing the healthiness of representative diets of the UK population, when a low cut-off for the NPM dietary index was used, irrespective of the version. This suggests that dietary advice to the public is broadly aligned with NPM-based food policies and vice-versa. date: 2021-08 date_type: published publisher: MDPI AG official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13082732 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2086229 doi: 10.3390/nu13082732 medium: Electronic pii: nu13082732 lyricists_name: Pinho-Gomes, Ana-Catarina lyricists_id: APINH14 actors_name: Pinho-Gomes, Ana-Catarina actors_id: APINH14 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: Academic Clinical Fellowship [National Institute for Health Research] full_text_status: public publication: Nutrients volume: 13 number: 8 article_number: 2732 event_location: Switzerland issn: 2072-6643 citation: Pinho-Gomes, AC; Kaur, A; Scarborough, P; Rayner, M; (2021) Are the eatwell guide and nutrient profiling models consistent in the UK? Nutrients , 13 (8) , Article 2732. 10.3390/nu13082732 <https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13082732>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176857/1/Are%20the%20Eatwell%20Guide%20and%20Nutrient%20Profiling%20Models%20Consistent%20in%20the%20UK%20.pdf