title: Prevalence of relevant nutritional claims related to prevention of obesity in Spanish market
abstract: Introduction: Although previous studies have provided relevant information regarding the progress in the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Union. So far it not determined the prevalence of relevant nutrition claims in preventing obesity in the Spanish market.
  Objective: To determine the prevalence of relevant nutritional claims related to prevent the obesity in the Spanish market.
  Material and methods: A database with 9 food product categories and it nutritional claims was created. Three supermarket chains were included because they represent the 40% of market share. Only the nutritional claims that mention nutrients related obesity was considered.
  Results: A total of 4,568 products were examined and a total of 900 nutrition claims were found in 20% of the products found. The most frequent nutrients referred in the nutritional claims were fat (42%), sugar (32%), dietary fibre (20%) and salt (6%).
  Conclusions: In accordance with previous studies, findings reported a low prevalence of nutritional claims indicating that agrifood sector should include more nutritional claims to help consumers making better food choices.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Economía Agroalimentaria. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA). Gobierno de Aragón. Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza). Zaragoza. tmagistris@aragon.es.
authors.forename: Belinda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lopéz-Galán
authors.forename: Tiziana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De Magistris
mesh_terms: D019649:Food Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005515:Food Labeling; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology