Are front-of-pack labels a health policy tool?

L Muzzioli, C Penzavecchia, LM Donini, A Pinto - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
To stem the increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity, front-
of-pack labels (FOPLs) have been developed since 1989. Whereas several countries have …

The Potential Effectiveness of Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling for Improving Population Diets

B Kelly, SH Ng, A Carrad… - Annual Review of Nutrition, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Nutrition labeling on the front of food packages can support more healthful purchase
decisions and encourage favorable reformulation. This systematic literature review applied …

Performance of the front-of-pack nutrition label Nutri-Score to discriminate the nutritional quality of foods products: a comparative study across 8 European countries

L Dréano-Trécant, M Egnell, S Hercberg, P Galan… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
In Europe, discussions are currently ongoing to harmonize front-of-pack nutritional labelling,
while some countries have adopted or are considering implementing the Nutri-Score …

[HTML][HTML] The nutri-score nutrition label

S Hercberg, M Touvier, J Salas-Salvado - 2021 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Nutri-Score is a front-of-pack nutrition label with summary graded colour-coding, which aims
to inform consumers, in a simple and understandable way, of the overall nutritional value of …

Impact of front-of-pack nutrition labels on consumer purchasing intentions: a randomized experiment in low-and middle-income Mexican adults

A Jáuregui, J Vargas-Meza, C Nieto… - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labeling is a cost-effective strategy to help
consumers make informed and healthier food choices. We aimed to investigate the effect of …

Compared to other front-of-pack nutrition labels, the Nutri-Score emerged as the most efficient to inform Swiss consumers on the nutritional quality of food products

M Egnell, P Galan, NJ Farpour-Lambert, Z Talati… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Switzerland, like other high-income countries, is facing a major public health
challenge with the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases. Discussions are …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of front-of-pack labels on the nutritional quality of supermarket food purchases: evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial

P Dubois, P Albuquerque, O Allais, C Bonnet… - Journal of the Academy …, 2021 - Springer
To examine whether four pre-selected front-of-pack nutrition labels improve food purchases
in real-life grocery shopping settings, we put 1.9 million labels on 1266 food products in four …

Association between the nutrient profile system underpinning the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition label and mortality in the SUN project: A prospective cohort study

C Gómez-Donoso, MÁ Martínez-González… - Clinical nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Background & aims Front-of-pack nutrition labelling is a key public health policy that can be
adopted as part of a comprehensive set of measures to promote healthy diets. The Nutri …

Consumers' responses to front-of-pack nutrition labelling: results from a sample from The Netherlands

M Egnell, Z Talati, M Gombaud, P Galan, S Hercberg… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Front-of-pack labels (FoPLs) are efficient tools for helping consumers identify healthier food
products. Although discussions on nutritional labelling are currently ongoing in Europe, few …

Evaluation of the ability of nutri-score to discriminate the nutritional quality of prepacked foods using a sale-weighting approach

E Hafner, I Pravst - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
The implementation of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling is currently being
discussed in the European Union (EU). The Nutri-Score (NS) was developed in France to …