20.500.12556/DiRROS-24158 Assessing the average sodium content of prepacked foods with nutrition declarations the importance of sales data Processed foods are recognized as a major contributor to high dietary sodium intake, associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Different public health actions are being introduced to reduce sodium content in processed foods and sodium intake in general. A gradual reduction of sodium content in processed foods was proposed in Slovenia, but monitoring sodium content in the food supply is essential to evaluate the progress. Our primary objective was to test a new approach for assessing the sales-weighted average sodium content of prepacked foods on the market. We show that a combination of 12-month food sales data provided by food retailers covering the majority of the national market and a comprehensive food composition database compiled using food labelling data represent a robust and cost-effective approach to assessing the sales-weighted average sodium content of prepacked foods. Food categories with the highest sodium content were processed meats (particularly dry cured meat), ready meals (especially frozen pizza) and cheese. The reported results show that in most investigated food categories, market leaders in the Slovenian market have lower sodium contents than the category average. The proposed method represents an excellent tool for monitoring sodium content in the food supply. food composition sodium salt processed foods food labelling nutrition claims health claims food supply true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Neznano 2025-11-18 08:42:08 2025-11-19 09:14:13 2025-11-20 03:44:36 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 4. 9. 2014; str. 3501-3515 [no.] 6 [Vol.] 9 2014 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2014-01-01 613.2 2072-6643 10.3390/nu6093501 37535237 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/9/3501 1 17579c15-c452-11f0-94a7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=35958 RAZ_Lavrisa_Ziva_2014.pdf RAZ_Lavrisa_Ziva_2014.pdf 1 4BB3E50B442688AC2ECBB62F974FB7D9 915841660e9e4a162b19ea81e8c7219625d8049f5ffbdc9e9b89fa36dd44c51a 9f69fc83-c51f-11f0-94a7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=36001 Inštitut za nutricionistiko 0 0 0