首页|Learning about good nutrition with the 5-color front-of-package label"Nutri-Score":an experimental study

Learning about good nutrition with the 5-color front-of-package label"Nutri-Score":an experimental study

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The Nutri-Score is a 5-color front-of-pack nutrition label designed to provide consumers with an easily understandable guideline to the healthiness of food products.The impact that the Nutri-Score may have on consumers'choices is unclear since different experimental paradigms have found vastly different effect sizes.In the present study,we have investigated how student participants change a hypothetical personal 1-day-dietary plan after a learning phase during which they learn about the Nutri-Scores of the available food items.Participants were instructed to compose a healthy diet plan in order that the question of whether the Nutri-Score would improve their ability to compose a healthy dietary plan could be investigated,independent of the question of whether they would apply this knowledge in their ordinary lives.We found a substantial(Cohen's d=0.86)positive impact on nutritional quality(as measured by the Nutrient Profiling System score of the Food Standards Agency)and a medium-sized(Cohen's d=0.43)reduction of energy content.Energy content reduction was larger for participants who had initially composed plans with higher energy content.The results suggest that the Nutri-Score has the potential to guide consumers to healthier food choices.It remains unclear,however,whether this potential will be reflected in real-life dietary choices.

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Robin C.Hau、Klaus W.Lange

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University of Applied Sciences Landshut,Landshut 84036,Germany

Faculty of Human Sciences,University of Regensburg,Regensburg 93040,Germany

2024

食品科学与人类健康(英文)

食品科学与人类健康(英文)

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年,卷(期):2024.13(3)
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