The NOVA food classification system - Classifying ultra-processed foods to improve health 👌 🚀

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What is the NOVA system?

Nutrition has become one of the great concerns of the day to day. Health authorities never tire of repeating to us that a healthy and balanced diet is the best tool to prevent health problems.

But the food industry has evolved so much that we need new systems that classify food. To really know what we are eating and the consequences it can have for our body.

We know that the food industry has evolved so much that we need new systems that classify food globally. All consumers need to know that they are actually eating and the consequences it can have on their bodies.

For this reason the NOVA system classification was created. The NOVA system was developed in 2010 at the School of Public Health of the University of Sao Paulo.

It is a system that classifies foods by their degree of processing, ignoring the nutrients they contain. That is, it informs you how much a product is processed. 🥫



There are studies where they show that if you consume four daily servings of ultra-processed foods, it is related to 62% of the greater risks for all causes of mortality.

How are the ultra-processed foods of the NOVA system classified?


The NOVA system is a food classification model that considers four product categories: unprocessed or minimally processed foods, processed culinary ingredients, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods.

From the least processed such as frozen blueberries to the ultra processed ones, some fried egg flavor potato chips (true, there are those chips). After several systems developed in several countries, NOVA has become the most widely used and standardized tool.

The NOVA system recognizes 4 levels of processing:

🥦 Group 1 - Unprocessed or minimally processed foods.
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods.

That is to say, natural foods, such as vegetables, animal meat, fish, eggs or milk. Minimally processed foods are also included. For example, that have been chopped, roasted (like coffee), blanched, pasteurized (like milk), refrigerated, or frozen. The objective of this processing is to facilitate its preparation or improve its conservation.

In this group would enter the fresh foods.



🧂 Group 2 - Processed culinary ingredients
Processed culinary ingredients belong to this group. They are products extracted or refined from other products such as vegetable oils, animal fats, starches or sugar. Salt is also included in this group.

They are foods that are not consumed on their own. Its objective is to give palatability, greater acceptance or enrich meals.

We also include in this group foods that combine two products, such as butter with salt, as well as vinegar, a product of the fermentation of grapes.

🧀 Group 3 - Processed foods
From this group we already enter processed foods.

They are products normally processed with group 2 products (salt, sugar ...). These products usually contain between 2-5 ingredients.

We are talking about canned vegetables, salted nuts, canned meat or fish, smoked or salted, cheeses, fruits in syrup and alcoholic beverages such as wine, cider and beer.



🍩 Group 4 - Ultra-processed foods and beverages.
In this group it is about ultra-processed foods, that is, we put the rest of the foods that we normally find in the supermarket, the bad ones of the group.

Industrial products with more than 5 ingredients in general, which usually contain group 2 products and many more food additives.

In addition, they are subjected to unnatural processes such as hydrogenation, extrusion, grinding. In other words, less healthy for your health. We have to avoid this group as much as possible.



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