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Table 3 Definitions of chocolate and fruit

From: Making hospital shops healthier: evaluating the implementation of a mandatory standard for limiting food products and promotions in hospital retail outlets

Product category

Definition

Chocolate

Solid blocks of chocolate, blocks with added ingredients, such as fruit and nuts, chocolate eggs, confectionery that contains chocolate as the main ingredient, chocolate-covered confectionery in bags, rolls and tubes.

(definition based on Mintel categories [28]).

Fruit

Fresh fruit: Sold loose or pre-packed

Fresh fruit salad/fruit pots

(Dried fruit products were excluded because they did not meet the HRS criteria for products which could be promoted.