Adolescents' ability to select healthy food using two different front-of-pack food labels: a cross-over study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare, in adolescents, two models of front-of-pack Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA) labels in terms of (i) friendliness and acceptance and (ii) the ability to choose a diet that closely follows the nutritional recommendations.

Design

A randomized cross-over study was designed to compare two simplified front-of-pack GDA nutrition labels.

Setting

A Spanish secondary school.

Subjects

Eighty-one healthy adolescents aged between 14 and 16 years were recruited. Participants were randomly exposed to two experimental non-real food-choice conditions using multiple-traffic-light or monochrome nutritional labels. Participants had to choose options from a closed menu for 5 d on the basis of the experimental front-of-pack labelling. For each meal, three food opt

SUBMITTER: Babio N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10282295 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature