Nutrition and Health Claims Spectra of Pre-Packaged Foods on Serbian Supermarket Shelves: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
| Autor: | Dragana Milan Stosovic, Milena Tomanic, Katarina Paunovic, Nadja Vasiljevic, Danica Zarić, Dragana Davidovic, Ana Jovanović |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
030309 nutrition & dietetics Cross-sectional study 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Legislation nutrition claims Article Nutrition Policy food policy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health claims on food labels Food Labeling health claims Environmental health medicine TX341-641 Supermarkets 2. Zero hunger 0303 health sciences Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition. Foods and food supply Public health digestive oral and skin physiology food labelling language.human_language 3. Good health pre-packaged food Cross-Sectional Studies Food products language Food labelling Food policy Business Serbian Nutritive Value Serbia Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients Volume 13 Issue 8 Nutrients, Vol 13, Iss 2832, p 2832 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu13082832 |
| Popis: | Nutrition and health claims (NHCs) are a powerful tool that influence consumers’ final decision on the choice of food products. The purposes of this repeated cross-sectional study were to (i) assess the prevalence of pre-packaged food products containing nutrition and health claims among different food categories, (ii) to determine the type of NHCs labelled on the examined food products, and (iii) to evaluate the trend in the use of NHCs in comparison to the 2012 survey. The survey was conducted immediately before the full enforcement of the new national legislation on NHCs in 2020. It comprised 3141 pre-packaged food products from 10 product categories. In total, 21.2% of food products contained any claim (19.4% contained any nutrition claim 8.2% contained any health claim). In comparison to the 2012 survey, we observed a rising trend in the presence of NHCs the use of nutrition claims on food products increased three times and the use of health claims increased 1.3 times in the 2020 survey. Bearing in mind that NHCs are a powerful tool guiding consumers’ food purchase decisions, NHCs should be supported by precise legislation and strict surveillance by the public health authorities. |
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