Description of the health creation methodology

 In the absence of a published standard methodology for the creation of a literature search was carried out from September to December 2019 to identify publications documenting methodologies used and structures of existing The literature was searched for information about database structure (organization as a single data set or multiple data sets with a linking key), nutritional information captured (nutrients, ingredients, serving size, package size), and other information (brand

   Data source:

Data was sourced via online supermarket platforms and collected from nutrition information panels on product packaging and any on pack communication on the front, back or the sides of the packaging. Data were copied from the product's labels, as seen at the available photographs.

Duplicates of the same product, constituting part of an offer or discount multiparty age, or by human error appearing twice at the online platform, were excluded (multiparty items were deleted where the single item was...

  Product categorization and data entry methodology:

All foods in health are classified in a hierarchical structure to categories (n = 13), subcategories (n = 46), groups (n = 175) and subgroups when necessary for further granularity.

Categories and subcategories were derived following lingual. lingual is a multilingual the aural system using classification. lingual uses a set of standard, controlled terms from facet characteristics of the nutritional and /or hygienic quality of a food to described each product and creates a unique digit. 

  health current status & preliminary findings:

On May 2020, the Hellenic  included 4,067 branded food products with information on more than 100 descriptors. was carried out for the first n number of products (n = 2008 on 3/2020) in 20 food subcategories (Table 1).

health has identified 45 different nutrients declared all used in different intensity. In terms of data completeness, for all the mandatory nutrients (energy, protein, total fat, saturated fatty acids (Sofia), carbohydrates, total sugars and salt) missing values