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The healthfulness of major food brands according to Health Canada’s nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children

Vergeer L, Mulligan C, Jeong H, Khan A, L’Abbé MR. The healthfulness of major food brands according to Health Canada’s nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children. Public Health Nutr. 2025 Jan 7;28(1):e17. doi: 10.1017/S1368980024002659. PMID: 39764633. View Online.

Correction: Nutrient intakes and top food categories contributing to intakes of energy and nutrients-of-concern consumed by Canadian adults that would require a ‘high-in’ front-of-pack symbol according to Canadian labelling regulations

Lee JJ, Ahmed M, Ng AP, Mulligan C, Flexner N, L’Abbé MR. Correction: Nutrient intakes and top food categories contributing to intakes of energy and nutrients-of-concern consumed by Canadian adults that would require a ‘high-in’ front-of-pack symbol according to Canadian labelling regulations. PLoS One. 2024 Jun 24;19(6):e0306212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306212. Erratum for: PLoS One. 2023 May 18;18(5):e0285095. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285095. PMID: 38913644; PMCID: PMC11195937. View Online.

Comparing the nutritional composition of foods and beverages in the Canadian Nutrient File to a large representative database of Canadian prepackaged foods and beverages.

Bernstein JT, Christoforou AK, Flexner N, L’Abbe MR. Comparing the nutritional composition of foods and beverages in the Canadian Nutrient File to a large representative database of Canadian prepackaged foods and beverages. PLoS One. 2023 Mar 13;18(3):e0280028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280028. PMID: 36913344; PMCID: PMC10010505. View Online.

Natural language processing and machine learning approaches for food categorization and nutrition quality prediction compared with traditional methods

Hu G, Ahmed M, L’Abbé MR. Natural language processing and machine learning approaches for food categorization and nutrition quality prediction compared with traditional methods. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Mar;117(3):553-563. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.11.022. Epub 2022 Dec 23. PMID: 36872019. View Online.

Evaluating the potential implications of canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations in generic and branded food composition databases

Mulligan C, Lee JJ, Vergeer L, Ahmed M, L’Abbé MR. Evaluating the potential implications of Canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations in generic and branded food composition databases. BMC Public Health. 2022 Oct 6;22(1):1866. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14269-4. PMID: 36203128; PMCID: PMC9535871. View Online.