Nutritional quality of food as represented by the FSAm-NPS nutrient profiling system underlying the Nutri-Score label and cancer risk in Europe: Results from the EPIC prospective cohort study.
Melanie Deschasaux-TanguyInge HuybrechtsNeil MurphyChantal JuliaSerge HercbergBernard SrourEmmanuelle Kesse-GuyotPaule Latino-MartelCarine BiessyCorinne CasagrandeMazda JenabHeather WardElisabete WeiderpassChristina Catherine DahmKim OvervadCecilie KyroAnja W OlsenAurélie AffretMarie-Christine Boutron-RuaultYahya Mahamat-SalehRudolf KaaksTilman KühnHeiner BoeingLukas SchwingshacklChristina BamiaEleni PeppaAntonia TrichopoulouGiovanna MasalaVittorio KroghSalvatore PanicoRosario TuminoCarlotta SacerdoteBas Bueno-de-MesquitaPetra H PeetersAnette HjartåkerCharlotta RylanderGuri SkeieJ Ramón QuirósAntonio AgudoElena Salamanca-FernándezJosé María Huerta CastañoEva ArdanazPilar AmianoUlrika EricsonEmily SonestedtEna HuseinovicIngegerd JohanssonKay-Tee KhawNicholas J WarehamKathryn E BradburyAurora Perez-CornagoKonstantinos K TsilidisPietro FerrariElio RiboliMarc J GunterMathilde TouvierPublished in: PLoS medicine (2018)
In this large multinational European cohort, the consumption of food products with a higher FSAm-NPS score (lower nutritional quality) was associated with a higher risk of cancer. This supports the relevance of the FSAm-NPS as underlying nutrient profiling system for front-of-pack nutrition labels, as well as for other public health nutritional measures.