Front-of-pack (FOP) labelling systems to improve the quality of nutrition information to prevent obesity: NutrInform Battery vs Nutri-Score
| Autor: | Alessandra Valerio, Andrea Ghiselli, Ferruccio Santini, Michele O. Carruba, Enrica Riva, Enzo Nisoli, Antonio Caretto, Lucio Lucchin, Giuseppe Fatati, Chiara Ruocco, Claudio Maffeis, Andrea Vania, Giuseppe Malfi, Alexis Elias Malavazos, Marco Silano, Antonino De Lorenzo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Energy (esotericism) media_common.quotation_subject Dietary choice Education Food Food portions Nutrition Obesity Participation Policy Prevention Public health Overweight Settore MED/49 Choice Behavior Food Preferences Food Labeling medicine Humans Nutrition information Quality (business) Marketing media_common Evidence-based medicine Consumer Behavior medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Partecipation Position paper medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Popis: | Abstract Many systems for classifying food products to adequately predict lower all-cause morbidity and mortality have been proposed as front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional labels. Although the efforts and advances that these systems represent for public health must be appreciated, as scientists involved in nutrition research and belonging to diverse Italian nutrition scientific societies, we would like to draw stakeholders’ attention to the fact that some FOP labels risk being not correctly informative to consumers’ awareness of nutritional food quality. The European Commission has explicitly called for such a nutrition information system to be part of the European “strategy on nutrition, overweight and obesity-related issues” to “facilitate consumer understanding of the contribution or importance of the food to the energy and nutrient content of a diet”. Some European countries have adopted the popular French proposal Nutri-Score. However, many critical limits and inadequacies have been identified in this system. As an alternative, we endorse a new enriched informative label—the NutrInform Battery—promoted by the Italian Ministry of Health and deeply studied by the Center for Study and Research on Obesity, Milan University. Therefore, the present position paper limits comparing these two FOP nutritional labels, focusing on the evidence suggesting that the NutrInform Battery can help consumers better than the Nutri-Score system to understand nutritional information, potentially improving dietary choices. Level of evidence II. Evidence was obtained from well-designed controlled trials without randomization. |
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