Nutrition labels can potentially benefit consumers by increasing product knowledge and reducing search costs. However, the global increase in obesity rates leads one to question the effectiveness of current nutrition information formats. Alternative formats for providing nutrition information...

Nutrition labels can potentially benefit consumers by increasing product knowledge and reducing search costs. However, the global increase in obesity rates leads one to question the effectiveness of current nutrition information formats. Alternative formats for providing nutrition information...

This study tracks food products introduced from 1989 to 2010 to better understand the adoption of voluntary health- and nutrition-related claims by companies. New food products introduced with health- and nutrition-related claims accounted for 43.1 percent of all new U.S. food product...

Nutrition information enables consumers to make informed decisions when purchasing and consuming food products. Despite this, the issue of consumer awareness and usage of nutrition information has attracted little research attention in developing countries. This study presents findings of an...

Comprendre la manière dont les consommateurs effectuent leurs choix nutritionnels est un enjeu important pour les pouvoirs publics et les acteurs de l’industrie agroalimentaire. La plupart des recherches qui ont eu pour objet d’étudier les choix nutritionnels se sont nourries du paradigme...

Consumers need information such as nutrition tables to assess the nutritional value of a food product. Although a broad range of studies has examined consumers’ attention, perception and use of nutrition tables, relatively little is known about what types of consumers use what kind of...

The ways in which consumers make judgments about the nutritional quality of food products are a major concern for public policymakers. Given the focus on nutrition information in public health policies, the information processing paradigm has been widely used in past research. However, there is...

Nutritional labeling usually described food products composition in terms of nutrients . This article aims at comparing the effect of the nutrients labeling vs. an alternative labeling based on food groups. In this respect, an experimentation has been conducted in two companies’ restaurants...

Understanding the decision process underlying consumers’ nutrition choice is crucial for public policy makers and food industry. Most published scientific research that focused on nutrition choice has been widely influenced by information-processing theory because of the importance of...