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Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children
BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity have been described as a global epidemic that seriously affects the health of adults and children. Front of Package (FOP) Nutrition Labeling can increase consumers’ awareness of unhealthy foods. The purpose of this study is to find effective deterrence and improve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9230083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35751054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13613-y |
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author | Wang, Ching-Yi Hsu, Chung-Jia Cai, Dengchuan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity have been described as a global epidemic that seriously affects the health of adults and children. Front of Package (FOP) Nutrition Labeling can increase consumers’ awareness of unhealthy foods. The purpose of this study is to find effective deterrence and improve children’s health awareness via the FOP. METHODS: This study examined children’s health awareness of snack packaging using the four labels: guideline daily amounts (GDA), traffic light system (TLS), Apple label (designed in this study), and Warning label. This study recruited 343 children in the sixth grade, including 223 children living in cities and 120 children living in rural areas. First, 30 children in grades 3 to 6 selected 8 snacks that they often buy. Then, each snack was synthesized into these four labels according to their nutritional content for a total of 32 samples. Finally, a questionnaire was used to evaluate the health of snack packaging and the visibility of nutrition labels. RESULTS: Four results can be drawn: (1) GDA, Apple label and TLS can help children determine healthier snack choices, (2) black Warning label cannot induce children to make healthier choices, (3) children who often buy snacks have low health awareness, and (4) rural children have weak health awareness of snack packaging. CONCLUSIONS: These results can provide a packaging label design, which can effectively improve children’s health awareness. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13613-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-92300832022-06-25 Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children Wang, Ching-Yi Hsu, Chung-Jia Cai, Dengchuan BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity have been described as a global epidemic that seriously affects the health of adults and children. Front of Package (FOP) Nutrition Labeling can increase consumers’ awareness of unhealthy foods. The purpose of this study is to find effective deterrence and improve children’s health awareness via the FOP. METHODS: This study examined children’s health awareness of snack packaging using the four labels: guideline daily amounts (GDA), traffic light system (TLS), Apple label (designed in this study), and Warning label. This study recruited 343 children in the sixth grade, including 223 children living in cities and 120 children living in rural areas. First, 30 children in grades 3 to 6 selected 8 snacks that they often buy. Then, each snack was synthesized into these four labels according to their nutritional content for a total of 32 samples. Finally, a questionnaire was used to evaluate the health of snack packaging and the visibility of nutrition labels. RESULTS: Four results can be drawn: (1) GDA, Apple label and TLS can help children determine healthier snack choices, (2) black Warning label cannot induce children to make healthier choices, (3) children who often buy snacks have low health awareness, and (4) rural children have weak health awareness of snack packaging. CONCLUSIONS: These results can provide a packaging label design, which can effectively improve children’s health awareness. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13613-y. BioMed Central 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9230083/ /pubmed/35751054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13613-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/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Wang, Ching-Yi Hsu, Chung-Jia Cai, Dengchuan Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title | Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title_full | Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title_fullStr | Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title_short | Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
title_sort | effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9230083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35751054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13613-y |
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