Does the Inclusion of Free Sugars as Opposed to Total Sugars in Nutrient Profiling Models Improve Their Performance? A Cross-sectional Analysis From the PREDISE Study
All 3 models are associated with diet quality and some biomarkers of health status in French-Canadians, although no model outranks the others. Replacing total sugars by free sugars has little to no effect on NP models' performance, therefore not supporting this approach for now.
Authors
- Mylène Turcotte
- Marie‐Ève Labonté (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9745-0443)
- A. Bergeron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3302-7050)
- Alicia Corriveau
- Simone Lemieux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3170-4062)
Institutions
- Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (CA)
- Université Laval (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Nutrition
- Published
- 2025-05-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.05.038
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.76