Nutrition facts labels: who is actually reading them and does it help in meeting intake recommendations for nutrients of public health concern?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fiber, potassium and calcium are nutrients of public health concern and their intakes in the United States are alarmingly low. The usage of nutrition facts labels has been reported to increase the odds for dietary reference intake of fiber in some studies. The overall evidence, however, is mixed, as some studies suggested that nutrition facts panels have little to no effect on average measures of diet quality. Here, we investigated whether the usage of nutrition facts labels was associated with meeting U.S. intake recommendations for three nutrients of public health concern: fiber, potassium and calcium.

Methods

We used cross-sectional multistage, stratified, clustered and probability sampling design data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Sur

SUBMITTER: Storz MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560412 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature