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Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial
In Italy, discussions are currently ongoing to implement a front-of-pack nutrition label (FoPL) while a growing number of European countries are adopting the Nutri-Score. The effectiveness of the Nutri-Score among Italian consumers requires further investigation. This study compared five FoPLs among...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32752021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12082307 |
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author | Fialon, Morgane Egnell, Manon Talati, Zenobia Galan, Pilar Dréano-Trécant, Louise Touvier, Mathilde Pettigrew, Simone Hercberg, Serge Julia, Chantal |
author_facet | Fialon, Morgane Egnell, Manon Talati, Zenobia Galan, Pilar Dréano-Trécant, Louise Touvier, Mathilde Pettigrew, Simone Hercberg, Serge Julia, Chantal |
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description | In Italy, discussions are currently ongoing to implement a front-of-pack nutrition label (FoPL) while a growing number of European countries are adopting the Nutri-Score. The effectiveness of the Nutri-Score among Italian consumers requires further investigation. This study compared five FoPLs among Italian participants (Health Star Rating system, multiple traffic lights, Nutri-Score, reference intakes, warning symbol) in terms of food choices and understanding of the labels by consumers. In 2019, 1032 Italian consumers completed an online survey in which they were asked to select one product they would likely purchase from a set of three foods with different nutrient profiles and then classify the products within the set according to their nutritional quality, first with no label and then with one of the five FoPLs on the pack. While no significant difference across labels was observed for food choices, the Nutri-Score demonstrated the highest overall performance in helping consumers to correctly rank the products according to their nutritional quality compared to the reference intakes (OR = 2.18 (1.50–3.17), p-value < 0.0001). Our results provide new insights on the effectiveness of the Nutri-Score, which would be a relevant tool to inform Italian consumers on the nutritional quality of food products. |
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spelling | pubmed-74689902020-09-04 Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial Fialon, Morgane Egnell, Manon Talati, Zenobia Galan, Pilar Dréano-Trécant, Louise Touvier, Mathilde Pettigrew, Simone Hercberg, Serge Julia, Chantal Nutrients Article In Italy, discussions are currently ongoing to implement a front-of-pack nutrition label (FoPL) while a growing number of European countries are adopting the Nutri-Score. The effectiveness of the Nutri-Score among Italian consumers requires further investigation. This study compared five FoPLs among Italian participants (Health Star Rating system, multiple traffic lights, Nutri-Score, reference intakes, warning symbol) in terms of food choices and understanding of the labels by consumers. In 2019, 1032 Italian consumers completed an online survey in which they were asked to select one product they would likely purchase from a set of three foods with different nutrient profiles and then classify the products within the set according to their nutritional quality, first with no label and then with one of the five FoPLs on the pack. While no significant difference across labels was observed for food choices, the Nutri-Score demonstrated the highest overall performance in helping consumers to correctly rank the products according to their nutritional quality compared to the reference intakes (OR = 2.18 (1.50–3.17), p-value < 0.0001). Our results provide new insights on the effectiveness of the Nutri-Score, which would be a relevant tool to inform Italian consumers on the nutritional quality of food products. MDPI 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7468990/ /pubmed/32752021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12082307 Text en © 2020 by the authors. 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 Fialon, Morgane Egnell, Manon Talati, Zenobia Galan, Pilar Dréano-Trécant, Louise Touvier, Mathilde Pettigrew, Simone Hercberg, Serge Julia, Chantal Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title | Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full | Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_fullStr | Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_short | Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_sort | effectiveness of different front-of-pack nutrition labels among italian consumers: results from an online randomized controlled trial |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32752021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12082307 |
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