Prevalence of ultra-processed foods and beverages in newly launched products across the Americas: a comparison between the United States and Latin American countries from 2018 to 2023
Authors: Gabriela Vatavuk-Serrati, Katie Meyer, Donna Miles, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, September 7, 2025 view full text
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Working towards affordable healthy diets: a review on innovations in food price monitoring, policy and research in Australia and beyond
Authors: Carmen Vargas, Kathryn Backholer, Rebecca Bennett, Rahul Maganti, Meron Lewis, Josephine Marshall, Gary Sacks, Laura Alston, Adyya Gupta, Cindy Needham, Oliver Huse, Shuwen Ng, Christina Zorbas
Published in: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, September 5, 2025 view full text
Food Waste Among Young Adults: Behaviors, Barriers, and Opportunities for Intervention
Authors: Sara Vandersip, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Anna Grummon, Carmen Prestemon, Alexandria Reimold
Published in: Current Developments in Nutrition, September 3, 2025 view full text
Evaluation of Caffeinated Beverages Sold in a National Sample of US Middle and High Schools
Authors: Leah Chapman, Erin Hager, Shuwen Ng, Nan Dou, Juliana Cohen
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. July 3, 2025 view full text
Evaluation of caffeinated beverages sold in a national sample of U.S. middle and high schools
Authors: Leah Elizabeth Chapman, Erin Hager, Shuwen Ng, Nan Dou, Juliana Cohen
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, July 3, 2025 view full text
All the Colors of the Rainbow: Synthetic Dyes in US Packaged Foods and Beverages in 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Dunford, Thomas Galligan, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Aviva Musicus
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, June, 24, 2025 view full text
Front-of-Package Food Labels and Perceived Weight Stigmatization: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Authors: Aline D'Angelo Campos, Anna Grummon, Shuwen Ng, Rebecca Puhl, Shelley Golden, Marissa Hall
Published in: JAMA Network Open, June 20, 2025 view full text
Estimating price and expenditure elasticities for select foods and drinks in South Africa using a demand systems model.
Authors: Chengetai Dare, Maxime Bercholz, Micheal Kofi Boachie, Evelyn Thsehla, Shuwen Ng
Published in: Journal of Public Health Research, June, 1, 2025 view full text
Changes in sugar-sweetened beverages and nonessential energy-dense food purchases overall and by type before and after the implementation of taxes in Mexico: repeated cross-sectional national surveys (2008-2018)
Authors: Claudia Gabriela Garcia-Chavez, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Shuwen Ng, Juan Rivera, M Arantxa Colchero
Published in: BMJ Public Health, May 30, 2025 view full text
The role of water insecurity in influencing water and sugar-sweetened beverage choices: a scoping review
Authors: Laina Ewoldt, Ana Clara Duran, Checkna Diawara, Carolina Batis, Deshira Wallace, Paul Taillie, Joshua Miller, Shuwen Ng, Ryan Cronk, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, May 12, 2025 view full text
Exploring disparities in the proportion of ultra-processed foods and beverages purchased in grocery stores by US households in 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Dunford, Donna Miles, and Barry Popkin
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, April 24, 2025 view full text
The mismatch between biological needs and the modern food industry
Authors: Barry Popkin, Shuwen Ng, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Nature Food, March 10, 2025 view full text
Indonesian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Front-of-Package Labels on Packaged Food and Drinks
Authors: Wendy Gonzalez, Eny Kurnia Sari, Aang Sutrisna, Zineb Felix, Nabila Ernada, Adhika Dibyareswati, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Current Developments in Nutrition, March 8, 2025 view full text
Changes in the critical nutrient content of packaged foods and beverages after the full implementation of the Chilean Food Labeling and Advertising Law: a repeated cross-sectional study.
Authors: Natalia Rebolledo, Pedro Ferrer-Rosende, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: BMC Medicine, January 27, 2025 view full text
Nutrition Transition's latest stage: Are ultra-processed food increases in low- and middle-income countries dooming our preschoolers' diets and future health?
Authors: Barry Popkin, Amos Laar
Published in: Pediatric Obesity, January 21, 2025 view full text
Beyond sugar-sweetened beverages: Tackling oral health risks of ultraprocessed foods
Authors: Habib Benzian, Sudeshni Naidoo, Shu Wen Ng
Published in: The Journal of the American Dental Association, January 13, 2025 view full text
Perceived healthfulness, nutrient content awareness, consumption, and intention to purchase selected Ultra Processed Products among adults in South Africa
Authors: Makoma Bopape, Jeroen De Man, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Rina Swart
Published in: Advances in Public Health, January 4, 2025 view full text
Using Food Composition Tables to Estimate Decreases in Sodium Intake Due to the Reformulation of Packaged and Ultra-Processed Foods in a Young Population in South Africa
Authors: Alexandra Ross, Elizabeth Swart, Joelaine Chetty, Malory Jumat, Tamryn Frank, Averalda van Graan
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, December 26, 2024 view full text
Defining "high-in" saturated fat, sugar and sodium to help inform front-of-pack labelling efforts for packaged foods and beverages in the United States
Authors: Elizabeth Dunford, Donna Miles, Bridget Hollingsworth, Samantha Heller, Barry Popkin, Shu Wen Ng, and Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Nutrients, December 17, 2024 view full text
Recall, understanding, use, and impact of front-of-package warning labels on ultra-processed foods: A qualitative study with mothers of preschool children in Peru
Authors: Francisco Diez-Canseco, Lizzete Najarro, Victoria Cavero, Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca Dillman Carpentier, J. Jaime Miranda
Published in: PLOS Global Public Health, December 12, 2024 view full text