Improving the design of nutrition labels to promote healthier food choices and reasonable portion sizes
Improving the design of nutrition labels to promote healthier food choices and reasonable portion sizes
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DOI：
10.1038/ijo.2014.86
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Khandpur, N.
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作者：
Roberto, C. A.;Khandpur, N.
准确且易于理解的营养标签是一个有价值的公共卫生目标，应被视为解决肥胖和不良饮食问题的重要策略。更新包装食品营养成分表，制定统一的包装正面标签制度，并在餐馆菜单上向消费者提供营养信息，这些都是重要的机会，可以教育人们了解食品的营养成分，提高对合理份量的认识，并促使消费者作出更健康的选择。本文的目的是确定和讨论：（1）目前关注的营养标签沟通策略;（2）通过食品标签改善营养信息沟通的机会，特别关注服务大小信息;（3）未来重要的研究领域，营养标签作为改善饮食的工具。我们建议，营养标签的研究应集中在如何提高食品标签的能力，以吸引消费者的注意力，减少标签的复杂性，并传达数字营养信息更简单和更有意义的方式，如通过解释性的食品标签，添加简单的文字，减少使用百分比和易于理解的服务量信息的介绍。
Accurate and easy-to-understand nutrition labeling is a worthy public health goal that should be considered an important strategy among many to address obesity and poor diet. Updating the Nutrition Facts Panel on packaged foods, developing a uniform front-of-package labeling system and providing consumers with nutrition information on restaurant menus offer important opportunities to educate people about food's nutritional content, increase awareness of reasonable portion sizes and motivate consumers to make healthier choices. The aims of this paper were to identify and discuss: (1) current concerns with nutrition label communication strategies; (2) opportunities to improve the communication of nutrition information via food labels, with a specific focus on serving size information; and (3) important future areas of research on nutrition labeling as a tool to improve diet. We suggest that research on nutrition labeling should focus on ways to improve food labels' ability to capture consumer attention, reduce label complexity and convey numeric nutrition information in simpler and more meaningful ways, such as through interpretive food labels, the addition of simple text, reduced use of percentages and easy-to-understand presentation of serving size information.