Healthy Beverage Index Calculation

In 2015, to calculate the HBI, a method was created by Duffey and Davy [13 ]. This method has 8 categories include diet drinks (including non-calorically sweetened coffee and tea and other artificially sweetened beverages), sugar-sweetened beverages (including fruit drinks, sweetened coffee and tea, and soda), 100% fruit juice, alcohol (including beer, wine, and liquor), full-fat milk (1.5% fat), water, unsweetened coffee and tea, and low-fat milk (1.5% fat, fat-free, and/or soy milk). The score of HBI ranges from 0 to 100. Better compliance with beverage standards is achieved by increasing the HBI scores [13 ]. In this study, we exclude diet drinks and alcohol with a score ranging 0 to 5 from the HBI categories, therefore, the maximum score of HBI was 90.