Front-of-package nutrition rating systems and symbols promoting healthier choices /

"During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products. These symbols and the systems that underlie them have become known as front-of-package (FOP) nutrition r...

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Corporate Authors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board, ebrary, Inc
מחברים אחרים: Wartella, Ellen
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • Introduction
  • The food package environment
  • The regulatory environment
  • Consumers' use of nutrition information and product choices
  • Consumer use and understanding of front-of-package labeling systems
  • Effects of food package information on consumer preferences, choices, and processing
  • A model front-of-package symbol system including criteria for evaluating nutrients
  • Promotion, evaluation, and monitoring for front-of-package symbol systems
  • Recommendations.