From: International collaborative project to compare and track the nutritional composition of fast foods
Fast food category | Food sub-category (major) | Food sub-category (minor) | Description |
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Asian | Thai | Â | Thai take-away meals and products |
Chinese | Â | Chinese take-away meals and products | |
Indian | Â | Indian take-away meals and products | |
Sushi and rice-paper rolls | Â | All sushi and rice-paper rolls | |
Other | Â | Other Asian take-away products and meals not in above categories | |
Beverages | Juice | Â | Fruit and vegetable juices, pure fruit smoothies |
Milkshakes/ smoothies | Â | Milkshakes, thickshakes, milk-based smoothies and other milk-based drinks | |
Water | Â | Plain and flavoured waters | |
Soft drink | Sugar-sweetened | Sugar-sweetened soft drinks | |
Sugar free | Artificially-sweetened soft drinks | ||
Tea/coffee/hot chocolate | Â | Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and iced variations | |
Other | Â | Other take-away beverages | |
Breakfast | Savoury | Â | Breakfast rolls/wraps/sandwiches, hot breakfasts, hash brown |
Sweet | Â | Pancakes/hotcakes | |
Other | Â | Plain English muffins, bagels, yoghurt, cereal | |
Burgers | Beef burgers | Â | All beef-based burger products (excluding sandwiches) |
 | Fish burgers |  | All fish-based burger products (excluding sandwiches) |
 | Chicken burgers |  | All chicken-based burger products (excluding sandwiches) |
 | Vegetarian burgers |  | All vegetarian burger products (excluding sandwiches) |
Chicken | Â | Â | Fried/grilled/roasted chicken, nuggets, hot wings |
Dessert | Â | Â | Dessert products |
Dressings/ condiments | Sweet | Â | Dessert sauces, sweet spreads |
Savoury | Â | Salad dressing, croutons, savoury sauces and spreads, gravy | |
Other | Â | Â | Ribs, boxed meals etc. |
Pasta | Â | Â | Pasta dishes |
Pizza | Meat-based toppings | Â | Take-away pizza products with meat-based toppings |
Seafood toppings | Â | Take-away pizza products with seafood-based toppings | |
Vegetarian toppings | Â | Take-away pizza products with vegetable-based toppings | |
Salads | Garden/plain salads | Â | Garden salads or other plain salads |
 | Salads with meat |  | Salad products with beef, chicken, lamb or fish |
Sandwiches | Beef-based sandwiches | Â | Beef-based sandwiches, wraps etc. (excludes burger-bun products) |
 | Chicken-based sandwiches |  | Chicken-based sandwiches, wraps etc. (excludes burger-bun products) |
 | Fish-based sandwiches |  | Fish-based sandwiches, wraps etc. (excludes burger-bun products) |
 | Vegetarian sandwiches |  | Vegetarian sandwiches, wraps etc. (excludes burger-bun products) |
 | Other sandwich products |  | All other sandwich products |
Seafood | Â | Â | All seafood products |
Sides | Fries | Â | Salted and unsalted fries |
Other | Â | All sides (excluding fries) such as onion rings, vegetables, garlic bread etc. | |
Soup | Â | Â | Soup products |
Cakes, muffins and pastry | Cakes | Â | Sweet cake products including sweet muffins |
 | Muffins |  | Savoury muffins |
 | Sweet pastry-based products |  | Pastry-based products such as danishes, tarts etc. |
 | Savoury pastry-based products |  | Savoury-based products such as empanadas, pies etc. |
Other cereal-based products | Tacos | Â | Tacos and other wheat/maize-based products |
 | Kebabs |  | Kebab products |