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Table 1 Examples of actions of the healthy food supply intervention phase

From: Effects of a healthy food supply intervention in a military setting: positive changes in cereal, fat and sugar containing foods

Apparent quantitatively measurable actions

Less-visible actions to improve quality of food supply

Garrison refectories

Garrison refectories

Serving fruit (apples and oranges) cut into slices instead of whole ones

Eliminating all usage of butter except in one traditional meat dish

Stopping serving sugar-sweetened juice at all meals

Replacing white pasta and rice with dark fiber-rich varieties

Increasing serving selection of fiber-rich bread such as rye bread

Adding bran to porridges

Soldier's home cafeterias

Soldier's home cafeterias

Replacing normal and big bags of sweets by small ones and dried fruit near cashier

Converting white bread dough of own bakery into more fiber-rich by adding e.g. bran, seeds

Including fresh vegetables in all sandwich, bun etc. fillings

Replacing sandwich fillings from fatty meat e.g. sausage to lean meat cuts

Developing small sweet pastries to be sold

Replacing full-fat yoghurt by fat-free alternatives