UPDATE

During a two-year period two international workshops will be organised with invited experts.

Workshop 1 (June 2025)

Expert workshop on the scientific assessment of the existing highly processed foods’ classification systems

Workshop 2 (Spring 2026)

The next generation of classification of highly processed foods (preliminary title)

You will find publications here when they are available.

We expect to publish:

• A comprehensive review of food classification systems and level of processing.
• Two workshop proceedings with consensus statements.
• A comprehensive literature review on UPFs.
• The new generation of highly processed foods classification.

The UPDATE project is led by Professor Susanne Bügel, University of Copenhagen, who is leading the following two working groups:

A Management Group of scientific academics from the University of Copenhagen:

• Professor Inge Tetens, Co-PI
• Research assistants Lea Ellen Matthiessen and Beatriz Philippi Rosane
• Research Coordinator, PhD, Louise Kjølbæk 

A Core Group of National and International colleagues

• Professor David Ludwig, Harvard University, US, and Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark

Professor Susanne Bügel

Head of Section, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1. Personal financial interests

Last 3 years:

Honorarium from The Danish Food and Agriculture association (Landbrug og Fødevarer) for talks given at their annual FoodDay (about Bioavailability of micronutrients).

Honorarium from Lex.dk for texts related to vitamins and minerals (paid per word).

Travel and accommodation expenses paid by The Organic Food Quality and Health association related to board meetings; annual general assembly and conferences.

Accommodation paid by the International Vitamin Conference for attendance at the conference in Copenhagen 2023.

Next 2 years:

Travel and accommodation expenses paid by The Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrirtion Sciences to attend and speak at the International Nutrition Conference in Paris, august 2025. Talk about UPDATE and highly processed Foods.

Travel and accommodation expenses paid by The Danish Adipositas association in relation to their annual meeting in Aarhus, spring 2025 – talk about highly processed Foods and UPDATE.

Honorarium from Lex.dk for texts related to vitamins and minerals (paid per word).

Travel and accommodation expenses paid by The Organic Food Quality and Health association related to board meetings; annual general assembly and conferences.

2. Organizational financial interests

Last 3 years:

The Novo Nordisk Foundation, DK – the UPDATE project – by invitation.

The Danish Dairy Research Foundation, DK. Biomicro project (2023-2026).  Bioavailability of micronutrients in dairy/plants.

CoreOrganic/SUS+ cofoundation - SYSORG project (2021-2024): Organic agro-food systems as models for sustainable food systems in Europe and Northern Africa.

Ekhaga Stiftelsen, SE, INSUM  project (2021-2023):. Indicators for assessment of health effects of consumption of sustainable organic school meals in Eco Regions.

Next 2 years

No further so far.

3. Non-Financial interests

Board member for the Organic Food Quality and Health association – unpaid.

Member of the organizing and Scientific Committee of the International Vitamin Conference.

4. Interests of related parties

None.