The NEEDNT Foods List
50 Non-Essential, Energy-Dense, Nutritionally-deficienT foods
- Alcoholic drinks
- Biscuits
- Butter
- Cakes
- Chocolate
- Coconut cream
- Condensed milk
- Cordial
- Corn chips
- Cream
- Crisps
- Desserts
- Donuts
- Energy drinks
- Flavoured milk
- Food tinned in syrup (even lite syrup)
- Fried food
- Frozen yoghurt
- Fruit juice (except tomato and un-sweetened blackcurrant)
- Glucose
- High fat crackers (≥ 10g fat per 100g)
- Honey
- Hot chips
- Icecream
- Jam
- Marmalade
- Mayonnaise
- Muesli bars
- Muffins
- Nuts roasted in fat or oil
- Pastries
- Pies
- Popcorn with butter
- Puddings
- Quiches
- Reduced cream
- Regular luncheon sausage
- Regular powdered drinks
- Regular salami
- Regular sausage
- Regular soft drinks
- Rollups
- Sour cream
- Sugar (added to anything – drinks, baking, cooking etc)
- Sweets/lollies
- Syrups such as golden syrupand treacle)
- Takeaways
- Toasted muesli
- Vegetable crisps
- Yoghurt type products with ≥ 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt
Elmslie JL, Sellman JD, Schroder RN, Carter FA. The NEEDNT Food List: Non-essential, energy-dense, nutritionally-deficient foods. New Zealand Medical Journal 2012; 125(1350): 84-92.