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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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Institutionella skapare: 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
Övriga skapare: Wartella, Ellen
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012.
Ämnen:
Nutrition.
Food > Labeling.
Food > Packing.
Health promotion > Methodology.
Obesity > Prevention.
Electronic books.
Länkar:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.

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