Consumers' Responses to Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling: Results from a Sample from The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Front-of-pack labels (FoPLs) are efficient tools for helping consumers identify healthier food products. Although discussions on nutritional labelling are currently ongoing in Europe, few studies have compared the effectiveness of FoPLs in European countries, including the Netherlands. This study aimed to compare five FoPLs among Dutch participants (the Health Star Rating (HSR) system, Multiple Traffic Lights (MTL), Nutri-Score, Reference Intakes (RIs), and Warning symbols) in terms of perception and understanding of the labels and food choices. In 2019, 1032 Dutch consumers were recruited and asked to select one product from among a set of three foods with different nutritional profiles, and then rank the products within the sets according to their nutritional quality. These tasks were pe

SUBMITTER: Egnell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6723811 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature