Table 4 Screening questionnaire of highly processed food consumption (sQ-HPF)

What was your average frequency of consumption over the past year of…

Criteria for 1 point

Score

(0 or 1)

Q1. Fatty dairy products (cream, cured or semi-cured cheese, processed soft cheese wedges)?

> = 2 t/week

Q2. Sugary dairy products (condensed milk, industrially produced milkshakes, flavored Petit Suisse yogurt, custard, crème caramel flan, pudding)?

> 3 t/month

Q3. Cured meats (serrano ham, sandwich (deli) ham, cured cold meats, pâté, bacon, marbling)?

> = 1 t/day

Q4. Fats (margarine, butter, lard (animal fat))?

> 3 t/month

Q5. Fermented alcohols (rosé wine, muscatel wine, young red wine, aged red wine, white wine, Spanish sparkling wine (cava), beer)?

> 1 t/day

Q6. Distilled alcohols (liquors, anisette, whisky, gin, vodka, cognac)?

> 3 t/month

Q7. Sugary and artificially sweetened drinks (soft drinks, artificially sweetened drinks, bottled juice, grape must)?

> = 2 t/week

Q8. Sweets (ice-cream and sorbets, canned fruit in juice or syrup, biscuits, whole meal biscuits, chocolate biscuits, honey, homemade baking products, industrially produced confectionery, donuts, muffins, cupcakes, industrially produced cakes, churros, chocolates, soluble cocoa powder, nougat, marzipan, shortbread biscuits, jam)?

> 1 t/day

Q9. Snacks (packaged potato crisps/chips, packaged snacks)?

> 3 t/month

Q10. Ready To Eat products (pizza, croquettes, instant soup)?

> 3 t/month

Q11. Refined cereals (white and sliced bread, breakfast cereals, Spaghetti, macaroni, Spanish noodles, white rice)?

> = 2 t/week

Q12. Sauces (mustard, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, Ketchup)?

> 1 t/week

Q13. Additives (sugar, table salt)?

> 3 t/day

Q14. Fried foods (eat out and homemade)?

> = 2 t/week

TOTAL SCORE:

Equivalency between sQ-HPF score and the estimated percentage of HPF consumption over the total intake in grams per day: