Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices
IntroductionUnhealthy food choices increase the risk of obesity and its co-morbidities. Nutrition labels are a public health policy that aims to drive individuals toward healthier food choices. Chile has been an example of this policy, where mandatory nutrient warning labels (NWL) identify processed...
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| description | IntroductionUnhealthy food choices increase the risk of obesity and its co-morbidities. Nutrition labels are a public health policy that aims to drive individuals toward healthier food choices. Chile has been an example of this policy, where mandatory nutrient warning labels (NWL) identify processed foods high in calories and critical nutrients. Eating contexts influence individual food choices, but whether eating contexts also influence how NWL alter the decision process and selection during food choice is unknown.MethodsIn an online mouse-tracking study, participants prompted to health, typical, or unrestricted eating contexts were instructed to choose between pairs of foods in the presence or absence of NWL. Conflict during choices was analyzed using mouse paths and reaction times.ResultsNWL increased conflict during unhealthy food choices and reduced conflict during healthy choices in all contexts. However, the probability that NWL reversed an unhealthy choice was 80% in a healthy, 37% in a typical, and 19% in an unrestricted context. A drift-diffusion model analysis showed the effects of NWL on choice were associated with an increased bias toward healthier foods in the healthy and typical but not in the unrestricted context.DiscussionThese data suggest that the efficacy of NWL to drive healthy food choices increases in a healthy eating context, whereas NWL are less effective in typical or unrestricted eating contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a2dff227cc98422da02afde9ec9747a52023-01-06T14:25:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Nutrition2296-861X2023-01-01910.3389/fnut.2022.10266231026623Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choicesSara Caballero0Sara Caballero1Cristóbal Moënne-Loccoz2Mauricio Delgado3Luis Luarte4Luis Luarte5Yanireth Jimenez6José E. Galgani7José E. Galgani8Claudio E. Perez-Leighton9Claudio E. Perez-Leighton10Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChilePrograma de Magister en Nutrición, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChilePrograma Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Nutrición, Diabetes y Metabolismo, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChilePrograma Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileIntroductionUnhealthy food choices increase the risk of obesity and its co-morbidities. Nutrition labels are a public health policy that aims to drive individuals toward healthier food choices. Chile has been an example of this policy, where mandatory nutrient warning labels (NWL) identify processed foods high in calories and critical nutrients. Eating contexts influence individual food choices, but whether eating contexts also influence how NWL alter the decision process and selection during food choice is unknown.MethodsIn an online mouse-tracking study, participants prompted to health, typical, or unrestricted eating contexts were instructed to choose between pairs of foods in the presence or absence of NWL. Conflict during choices was analyzed using mouse paths and reaction times.ResultsNWL increased conflict during unhealthy food choices and reduced conflict during healthy choices in all contexts. However, the probability that NWL reversed an unhealthy choice was 80% in a healthy, 37% in a typical, and 19% in an unrestricted context. A drift-diffusion model analysis showed the effects of NWL on choice were associated with an increased bias toward healthier foods in the healthy and typical but not in the unrestricted context.DiscussionThese data suggest that the efficacy of NWL to drive healthy food choices increases in a healthy eating context, whereas NWL are less effective in typical or unrestricted eating contexts.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.1026623/fulleating contextswarning labelsfood choicemouse-trackingfood labels |
| spellingShingle | Sara Caballero Sara Caballero Cristóbal Moënne-Loccoz Mauricio Delgado Luis Luarte Luis Luarte Yanireth Jimenez José E. Galgani José E. Galgani Claudio E. Perez-Leighton Claudio E. Perez-Leighton Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices Frontiers in Nutrition eating contexts warning labels food choice mouse-tracking food labels |
| title | Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| title_full | Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| title_fullStr | Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| title_short | Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| title_sort | eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices |
| topic | eating contexts warning labels food choice mouse-tracking food labels |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.1026623/full |
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