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Polish Consumers’ Understanding of Different Front-of-Package Food Labels: A Randomized Experiment

Dietary practices are a key behavioral factor in chronic disease prevention; one strategy for improving such practices population-wise involves front-of-package labels (FoPL). This online randomized study, conducted in a quota-based sample of 1159 Polish adults (mean age = 40.9 ± 15.4 years), assess...

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Autores principales: Andreeva, Valentina A., Egnell, Manon, Stoś, Katarzyna, Przygoda, Beata, Talati, Zenobia, Touvier, Mathilde, Galan, Pilar, Hercberg, Serge, Pettigrew, Simone, Julia, Chantal
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11010134
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author Andreeva, Valentina A.
Egnell, Manon
Stoś, Katarzyna
Przygoda, Beata
Talati, Zenobia
Touvier, Mathilde
Galan, Pilar
Hercberg, Serge
Pettigrew, Simone
Julia, Chantal
author_facet Andreeva, Valentina A.
Egnell, Manon
Stoś, Katarzyna
Przygoda, Beata
Talati, Zenobia
Touvier, Mathilde
Galan, Pilar
Hercberg, Serge
Pettigrew, Simone
Julia, Chantal
author_sort Andreeva, Valentina A.
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description Dietary practices are a key behavioral factor in chronic disease prevention; one strategy for improving such practices population-wise involves front-of-package labels (FoPL). This online randomized study, conducted in a quota-based sample of 1159 Polish adults (mean age = 40.9 ± 15.4 years), assessed the objective understanding of five FoPL: Health Star Rating, Multiple Traffic Lights, NutriScore, Reference Intakes (RI) and Warning Label. Objective understanding was evaluated by comparing results of two nutritional quality ranking tasks (without/with FoPL) using three food categories (breakfast cereals, cakes, pizza). Associations between FoPL exposure and objective understanding were assessed via multivariable ordinal logistic regression. Compared to RI and across food categories, significant improvement in objective understanding was seen for NutriScore (OR = 2.02; 95% CI: 1.41–2.91) and Warning Label (OR = 1.61; 95% CI: 1.12–2.32). In age-stratified analyses, significant improvement in objective understanding compared to RI emerged mainly among adults aged 18–30 years randomized to NutriScore (all food categories: OR = 3.88; 95% CI: 2.04–7.36; cakes: OR = 6.88; 95% CI: 3.05–15.51). Relative to RI, NutriScore was associated with some improvement in objective understanding of FoPL across and within food categories, especially among young adults. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate about an EU-wide FoPL model.
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spelling pubmed-87500262022-01-12 Polish Consumers’ Understanding of Different Front-of-Package Food Labels: A Randomized Experiment Andreeva, Valentina A. Egnell, Manon Stoś, Katarzyna Przygoda, Beata Talati, Zenobia Touvier, Mathilde Galan, Pilar Hercberg, Serge Pettigrew, Simone Julia, Chantal Foods Article Dietary practices are a key behavioral factor in chronic disease prevention; one strategy for improving such practices population-wise involves front-of-package labels (FoPL). This online randomized study, conducted in a quota-based sample of 1159 Polish adults (mean age = 40.9 ± 15.4 years), assessed the objective understanding of five FoPL: Health Star Rating, Multiple Traffic Lights, NutriScore, Reference Intakes (RI) and Warning Label. Objective understanding was evaluated by comparing results of two nutritional quality ranking tasks (without/with FoPL) using three food categories (breakfast cereals, cakes, pizza). Associations between FoPL exposure and objective understanding were assessed via multivariable ordinal logistic regression. Compared to RI and across food categories, significant improvement in objective understanding was seen for NutriScore (OR = 2.02; 95% CI: 1.41–2.91) and Warning Label (OR = 1.61; 95% CI: 1.12–2.32). In age-stratified analyses, significant improvement in objective understanding compared to RI emerged mainly among adults aged 18–30 years randomized to NutriScore (all food categories: OR = 3.88; 95% CI: 2.04–7.36; cakes: OR = 6.88; 95% CI: 3.05–15.51). Relative to RI, NutriScore was associated with some improvement in objective understanding of FoPL across and within food categories, especially among young adults. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate about an EU-wide FoPL model. MDPI 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8750026/ /pubmed/35010260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11010134 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Andreeva, Valentina A.
Egnell, Manon
Stoś, Katarzyna
Przygoda, Beata
Talati, Zenobia
Touvier, Mathilde
Galan, Pilar
Hercberg, Serge
Pettigrew, Simone
Julia, Chantal
Polish Consumers’ Understanding of Different Front-of-Package Food Labels: A Randomized Experiment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11010134
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