Objective Understanding of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels: An International Comparative Experimental Study across 12 Countries.

ABSTRACT: Front-of-Package labels (FoPLs) are efficient tools for increasing consumers' awareness of foods' nutritional quality and encouraging healthier choices. A label's design is likely to influence its effectiveness; however, few studies have compared the ability of different FoPLs to facilitate a consumer understanding of foods' nutritional quality, especially across sociocultural contexts. This study aimed to assess consumers' ability to understand five FoPLs [Health Star Rating system (HSR), Multiple Traffic Lights (MTL), Nutri-Score, Reference Intakes (RIs), and Warning symbol] in 12 different countries. In 2018, approximately 1000 participants per country were recruited and asked to rank three sets of label-free products (one set of three pizzas, one set of three cakes, and one set of thre

SUBMITTER: Egnell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6213801 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature