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Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Online grocery shopping is increasingly popular, but the extent to which these food environments encourage healthy or unhealthy purchases is unclear. This review identifies studies assessing the healthiness of real-world online supermarkets and frameworks to support future efforts...

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Autores principales: Maganja, Damian, Miller, Mia, Trieu, Kathy, Scapin, Tailane, Cameron, Adrian, Wu, Jason H. Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9023389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35138570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11883-022-01004-y
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author Maganja, Damian
Miller, Mia
Trieu, Kathy
Scapin, Tailane
Cameron, Adrian
Wu, Jason H. Y.
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description PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Online grocery shopping is increasingly popular, but the extent to which these food environments encourage healthy or unhealthy purchases is unclear. This review identifies studies assessing the healthiness of real-world online supermarkets and frameworks to support future efforts. RECENT FINDINGS: A total of 18 studies were included and 17 assessed aspects of online supermarkets. Pricing and promotional strategies were commonly applied to unhealthy products, while nutrition labelling may not meet regulated requirements or support consumer decision-making. Few studies investigated the different and specific ways online supermarkets can influence consumers. One framework for comprehensively capturing the healthiness of online supermarkets was identified, particularly highlighting the various ways retailers can tailor the environment to target individuals. SUMMARY: Comprehensive assessments of online supermarkets can identify the potential to support or undermine healthy choices and dietary patterns. Common, validated instruments to facilitate consistent analysis and comparison are needed, particularly to investigate the new opportunities the online setting offers to influence consumers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11883-022-01004-y.
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spelling pubmed-90233892022-05-02 Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review Maganja, Damian Miller, Mia Trieu, Kathy Scapin, Tailane Cameron, Adrian Wu, Jason H. Y. Curr Atheroscler Rep Nutrition (K. Petersen, Section Editor) PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Online grocery shopping is increasingly popular, but the extent to which these food environments encourage healthy or unhealthy purchases is unclear. This review identifies studies assessing the healthiness of real-world online supermarkets and frameworks to support future efforts. RECENT FINDINGS: A total of 18 studies were included and 17 assessed aspects of online supermarkets. Pricing and promotional strategies were commonly applied to unhealthy products, while nutrition labelling may not meet regulated requirements or support consumer decision-making. Few studies investigated the different and specific ways online supermarkets can influence consumers. One framework for comprehensively capturing the healthiness of online supermarkets was identified, particularly highlighting the various ways retailers can tailor the environment to target individuals. SUMMARY: Comprehensive assessments of online supermarkets can identify the potential to support or undermine healthy choices and dietary patterns. Common, validated instruments to facilitate consistent analysis and comparison are needed, particularly to investigate the new opportunities the online setting offers to influence consumers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11883-022-01004-y. Springer US 2022-02-09 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9023389/ /pubmed/35138570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11883-022-01004-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Maganja, Damian
Miller, Mia
Trieu, Kathy
Scapin, Tailane
Cameron, Adrian
Wu, Jason H. Y.
Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review
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title_full Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review
title_fullStr Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review
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title_short Evidence Gaps in Assessments of the Healthiness of Online Supermarkets Highlight the Need for New Monitoring Tools: a Systematic Review
title_sort evidence gaps in assessments of the healthiness of online supermarkets highlight the need for new monitoring tools: a systematic review
topic Nutrition (K. Petersen, Section Editor)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9023389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35138570
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