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Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels: Their Effect on Attention and Choices when Consumers have Varying Goals and Time Constraints

01 Aug 2011-Appetite (Appetite)-Vol. 57, Iss: 1, pp 148-160
TL;DR: Examination of consumer attention to and use of three different nutrition labeling schemes (logo, multiple traffic-light label, and nutrition table) shows that although consumers evaluate the nutrition table most positively, it receives little attention and does not stimulate healthy choices.
About: This article is published in Appetite.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guideline Daily Amount & Nutrition facts label.
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TL;DR: All published studies of nutrition label use that have utilized eye tracking methodology are reviewed, directions for further research in this growing field are identified, and research-based recommendations for ways in which labels could be modified to improve consumers’ ability to use nutrition labels to select healthful foods are made.

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TL;DR: This article conducted an interdisciplinary meta-analysis on the impact of front-of-package nutrition labels and found that although FOP labels help consumers to identify healthier products, their ability to nudge consumers toward healthier choices is limited.
Abstract: As consumers continue to struggle with issues related to unhealthy consumption, the goal of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels is to provide nutrition information in more understandable formats. The marketplace is filled with different FOP labels, but their true effects remain unclear, as does which label works best to change perceptions and behaviors. We address these issues through an interdisciplinary meta-analysis, generalizing the findings of 114 articles on the impact of FOP labels on outcomes such as consumers’ ability to identify healthier options, product perceptions, purchase behavior, and consumption. The results show that, although FOP labels help consumers to identify healthier products, their ability to nudge consumers toward healthier choices is more limited. Importantly, FOP labels may lead to halo effects, positively influencing not only virtue but also vice products, e.g., interpretive nutrient-specific labels improve health perceptions of both vice and virtue products, yet they influence only the purchase intention of virtues.

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TL;DR: From reviewing 60 intervention studies, food labeling reduces consumer dietary intake of selected nutrients and influences industry practices to reduce product contents of sodium and artificial trans fat.

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  • ...This informational belief formation process is complemented with a process of inferential belief formation (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), where consumers use other information cues on pack for (healthiness) belief formation....

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  • ...This process is known as informational belief formation (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), where consumers form beliefs about credence attributes (healthiness) on the basis of information provided by others (the label)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the reasons for and determinants of the provision by a firm of false information to a consumer so as to induce purchases which would not be made if the consumer possessed full information about the qualities of his purchase.
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  • ...Health is a socalled credence attribute (Darby & Karni, 1973) that consumers cannot verify on the basis of personal experience....

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TL;DR: Prevention will be the most cost-effective and feasible approach for many countries and should involve three mutually reinforcing strategies throughout life, starting in the antenatal period.
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