A comparison of the nutritional quality of products offered by the top packaged food and beverage companies in Canada

Table 5 The number and proportion of products exceeding Health Canada’s “high in” nutrient thresholds (≥15% Daily Value) for proposed front-of-pack (FOP) labelling regulations and would therefore be required to bear ≥1 FOP symbols for sodium, saturated fat and/or total sugars

Company	Total products n^a	Eligible products n^b	≥1 FOP symbol		Sodium		Saturated fat		Total sugars
Company	Total products n^a	Eligible products n^b	n	%^c	n	%^c	n	%^c	n	%^c
A. Lassonde	77	77	61	79.2	1	1.3	0	0.0	60	77.9
Agropur	123	115	90	73.2	19	15.4	48	39.0	42	34.1
Campbell Soup	222	221	191	86.0	162	73.0	32	14.4	33	14.9
Canada Bread	96	96	37	38.5	13	13.5	25	26.0	17	17.7
Canada Dry Mott’s	64	62	39	60.9	9	14.1	0	0.0	30	46.9
Coca-Cola	138	138	113	81.9	9	6.5	1	0.7	108	78.3
Danone	132	132	103	78.0	0	0.0	35	26.5	86	65.2
General Mills	382	378	295	77.2	97	25.4	105	27.5	175	45.8
George Weston	169	169	95	56.2	79	46.7	12	7.1	13	7.7
Kellogg	138	138	84	60.9	26	18.8	32	23.2	37	26.8
Kraft Heinz	460	460	345	75.0	260	56.5	117	25.4	66	14.3
Loblaw	3099	2935	1867	60.2	941	30.4	866	27.9	694	22.4
Maple Leaf Foods	158	158	154	97.5	143	90.5	84	53.2	13	8.2
Mondelēz	227	227	142	62.6	31	13.7	83	36.6	105	46.3
Nestlé	313	309	249	79.6	78	24.9	168	53.7	163	52.1
Ocean Spray Cranberries	38	38	26	68.4	0	0.0	1	2.6	26	68.4
Parmalat	120	120	106	88.3	28	23.3	82	68.3	39	32.5
PepsiCo	340	337	166	48.8	67	19.7	33	9.7	94	27.6
Saputo	95	87	73	76.8	25	26.3	60	63.2	23	24.2
Sobeys	1633	1545	1073	65.7	543	33.3	508	31.1	435	26.6
Sun-Rype	36	36	31	86.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	31	86.1
Unilever	217	217	158	72.8	91	41.9	53	24.4	64	29.5
TOTAL	8277	7995	5498	66.4	2622	31.7	2345	28.3	2354	28.4

^aTotal number of products offered by the company - overall or within a given food category – irrespective of whether a product was exempt from Health Canada’s proposed requirement to display a FOP nutrition symbol
^bNumber of products offered by the company – overall or within a given food category – that would be eligible for evaluation against the proposed thresholds for displaying a FOP nutrition symbol (i.e., products that did not qualify for exemption)
^cDenominator consists of all products offered by the company (including those that would be exempt from the requirement to display a FOP nutrition symbol)

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