Uso da rotulagem nutricional e percepção sobre a confiabilidade das informações por consumidores

Autor: Fernanda Furtado, Caroline Opolski Medeiros, Lisane Moreno Lorena de Sousa, Lize Stangarlin-Fiori, Esther Heyde Selke Costa
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Revista de Nutrição v.33 2020
Revista de Nutrição
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS)
instacron:PUC_CAMP
Revista de Nutrição, Volume: 33, Article number: e190199, Published: 10 JUN 2020
Revista de Nutrição, Vol 33
ISSN: 1678-9865
1415-5273
DOI: 10.1590/1678-9865202033e190199
Popis: Objective This investigation evaluated the use of food labels and consumers’ perception of the reliability of food labels nutritional information. Methods This is a transversal exploratory quantitative investigation, carried out in Curitiba, Brazil. A total of 536 students from a public institution participated in the survey answering a structured questionnaire. Descriptive analyses, Chi-Square test and Fisher’s exact test were performed considering a significance level of 5%. Results The participants’ mean age was 21.11±2.83 years, and 59.3% were female. It was noticed that 41.6% of consumers used the nutritional information sometimes and 14.7% always, mainly because they liked to know what they were buying and consuming (35.8%). Lack of patience (29.5%) and concern about the composition of the food purchased (34.2%) were the main reasons for not using the information provided. The most commonly used nutrition claim was “trans fat-free” (42.5%) and the type of food in which nutrition labeling was used most was milk and dairy products (42.0%). Frequent use of nutritional information was higher among women (p
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