Consumer understanding and use of nutrition labelling: a systematic review

By G. Cowburn, L. Stockley. Public Health Nutrition, 2005

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Subfields: Food Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Package Color and the Nutrition Content Labels on the Perception of Food Healthiness and Purchase Intention (2016, background): “…color is congruent with the connotative meaning of the NCC. Compared to standardized and detailed verbal information (i.e., nutrition facts and ingredients table), concise NCC labels can generally suggest the healthiness of food but with a certain degree of ambiguity (Cowburn & Stockley, 2005).”
• Traffic Lights and Food Choice: A Choice Experiment Examining the Relationship Between Nutritional Food Labels and Price (2010, background): “Importantly previous research on nutrition labels has identified that consumers find it difficult to employ nutritional label information to place a specific food item within an overall dietary plan (Cowburn and Stockley, 2005).”
• Customer Response to Carbon Labelling of Groceries (2011, background): “Recent reviews of food labelling suggest that consumers make relatively little use of nutrition information, particularly if the information is complicated (Cowburn and Stockley 2005; Grunert and Wills 2007; Rex and Baumann 2007).”
• Relationship between nutrition knowledge and dietary intake. (2014, background): “A number of studies have specifically examined food label reading skills, and evidence suggests that many consumers find this challenging (76) .”
• Nutrition labels on pre-packaged foods: a systematic review (2011, background): “difficulty in interpreting quantitative information contained in labels((6,13,14,16)).”
• Eye Tracking and Nutrition Label Use: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Label Enhancement (2012, background): “…provided important early insights about consumer use and understanding of nutrition labels; however, researchers have recently reported that such self-report measures may significantly overestimate actual rates of label use and comprehension (Cowburn and Stockley, 2005; Grunert et al., 2010).”
• ‘The Ostrich Problem’: motivated avoidance or rejection of information about goal progress (2013, background): “For example, Cowburn and Stockley (2004) reviewed studies investigating consumer understanding of nutrition and use of nutrition labeling and concluded that consumers found nutrition labels confusing.”