A household will buy more healthy food if a retailer clearly shows nutritional information on its ow
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoA household will buy more healthy food if a retailer clearly shows nutritional information on its own-brand food products, according to a new study.Researchers from the University of Bath evaluated the impact front-of-pack nutrition labelling – first introduced in 2006 – has on people’s buying habits. There is a clear reduction in the quantity of store-branded food purchased, such as ready meals, pizzas and burgers, when they have a nutrition information displayed.There was also an overall improvement in the nutritional composition of consumers’ shopping baskets where labelling was displayed, according to the Bath team.The researchers said these improvements in food shopping habits were most prominently observed across poorer households. A household will buy more healthy food if a retailer clearly shows nutritional information on its own-brand food products, https://www.cruisewhat.com/what-does-the-cross-mean-in-nutrition-labels-and-what-is-it-going-to-take-to-make-it-meaningful/ according to a new study There was also an overall improvement in the nutritional composition of consumers’ shopping baskets where labelling was displayed, according to the Bath team.
Stock imageIn 2006 the UK Food Standards Agency recommended retailers introduce front-of-pack labelling on their store-brand products for items like ready meals, burgers and sausages, pies, breaded or coated meats, pizzas, sandwiches and cereal.The information displayed includes details on salt, sugar and calorie content. Retailers such as Waitrose, Co-op, Marks & Spencer and Asda introduced either a traffic-light system or hybrid system of traffic lights and guideline daily amounts. A Traffic Light System features a colour-coded scheme denoting the amount of nutrients by the colours red (high), amber (medium) and green (low).A hybrid system incorporates both a traffic light system and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs), where both colours and the contribution that each of these nutrients make towards the adult GDA were displayed. On average, households reduced the total monthly calories from labelled store-brand foods by 588 Kcal, saturated fats by 14g, sugars by 7g and sodium by 0.8mg.Hybrid style labelling was found to be the most effective at shifting choices. RELATED ARTICLES
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The reduction in the quantity and the improvement in the quality of store-brand labelled foods appears to be driven by the hybrid labelling system, with no evidence of any effects of the traffic light system, the team wrote.<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sciencetech" data-version="2" id="mol-f8ff3c80-dd8f-11ea-80d7-67dc64d5fb4d" website information on food packs encourages healthier choices
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