How Much Do Front-Of-Pack Labels Correlate with Food Environmental Impacts?

ABSTRACT: Nutrient profiling and front-of-pack labeling (FOPL) have been developed to categorize food products as more or less healthy based on their nutrient content and to easily communicate this information to consumers. The goal is to change individual food choices toward a healthier diet. Since global climate change has recently become an urgent matter, this paper also aims to investigate the correlations between different food health scales, including some FOPLs currently adopted by one or more countries, and several sustainability indicators. For this purpose, a food sustainability composite index has been developed to summarize environmental indicators and compare food scales. Results indicate, as expected, that well-known healthy and sustainable diets are strongly correlated with both envir

SUBMITTER: Muzzioli L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10005439 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature