Nutritional Analysis of Foods and Beverages Posted in Social Media Accounts of Highly Followed Celebrities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Celebrity social media posts engage millions of young followers daily, but the nutritional quality of foods and beverages in such posts, sponsored and unsponsored, is unknown.

Objective

To quantify the nutritional quality of foods and beverages depicted in social media accounts of highly followed celebrities and assess whether nutritional quality is associated with post sponsorship, celebrity profession or gender, and followers' likes and comments.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzed the content of food- and beverage-containing posts from Instagram (a photo- and video-sharing social media platform) accounts of 181 highly followed athletes, actors, actresses, television personalities, and music artists. Data were collected f

SUBMITTER: Turnwald BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756336 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature