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The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality
A healthy diet is important to prevent lifestyle diseases. Food labels have been proposed as a policy tool to improve the healthiness of food choices, as they provide information about nutritional content and health attributes which may otherwise have been unknown to the consumer. This study investi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7352904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32517284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061704 |
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author | Rønnow, Helene Normann |
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description | A healthy diet is important to prevent lifestyle diseases. Food labels have been proposed as a policy tool to improve the healthiness of food choices, as they provide information about nutritional content and health attributes which may otherwise have been unknown to the consumer. This study investigates the effect of food labels with different formats on dietary quality by using home-scan panel data and difference-in-difference methods to compare the change in dietary quality over time for households that start to use food labels with households that do not use labels. I find that the use of front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional labels increases overall dietary quality, which is driven by reduced intake of added sugar and increased intake of fiber. The use of back-of-pack (BOP) nutritional tables does not influence dietary quality. There is no additional benefit to overall dietary quality by using both labels. However, the results indicate that there could be a benefit of using both labels on certain nutrients. The results imply that additional policies are needed to supplement food labels in order to improve dietary quality. |
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spelling | pubmed-73529042020-07-15 The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality Rønnow, Helene Normann Nutrients Article A healthy diet is important to prevent lifestyle diseases. Food labels have been proposed as a policy tool to improve the healthiness of food choices, as they provide information about nutritional content and health attributes which may otherwise have been unknown to the consumer. This study investigates the effect of food labels with different formats on dietary quality by using home-scan panel data and difference-in-difference methods to compare the change in dietary quality over time for households that start to use food labels with households that do not use labels. I find that the use of front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional labels increases overall dietary quality, which is driven by reduced intake of added sugar and increased intake of fiber. The use of back-of-pack (BOP) nutritional tables does not influence dietary quality. There is no additional benefit to overall dietary quality by using both labels. However, the results indicate that there could be a benefit of using both labels on certain nutrients. The results imply that additional policies are needed to supplement food labels in order to improve dietary quality. MDPI 2020-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7352904/ /pubmed/32517284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061704 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rønnow, Helene Normann The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title | The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title_full | The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title_short | The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutritional Labels and Back-of-Pack Tables on Dietary Quality |
title_sort | effect of front-of-pack nutritional labels and back-of-pack tables on dietary quality |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7352904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32517284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061704 |
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