Assessing food availability and healthier options in an urban Chinese university: a case study using the Chinese Nutrition Environment Measurement Survey for Stores (C-NEMS-S)

Table 1 Overview of the scoring criteria that were applicable or not applicable in the C-NEMS-S tool used in this audit

Outlet scoring criteria	Original scores available for each outlet	Actual scores available for each outlet
Dietary Oils	0 to 6	Criteria Removed
Milk	0 to 5	Criteria Removed
Bread	0 to 5	Criteria Removed
Instant Noodles	0 to 5	Criteria Removed
Beverages	0 to 18	Criteria Removed
Availability	0 to 48	0 to 19
Price	-14 to 26	-2 to 4
Quality^a	0 to 9	0 to 9
Total Score Range	-14 to 83	-2 to 32

^aUnlike the original C-NEMS-S, we assigned a universal quality score of 3 by default for applicable food categories served at each outlet

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