Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2013
Supplementing menu labeling with calorie recommendations to test for facilitation effects.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Improving Cardiovascular Health through Nudging Healthier Food Choices: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Calorie Labeling and Modified Calorie Labeling Interventions: Impact on Consumer and Restaurant Behavior.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis to Determine the Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Calories and Nutrients (Ordered or Consumed) in U.S. Adults.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- The impact of interventions to promote healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets open to the general public: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of restaurant menu calorie labeling.American journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- The Effect of Graphic Warnings on Sugary-Drink Purchasing.Psychological science · 2018Trial
- Federal Calorie Menu Labeling Policy and Calories Purchased in Restaurants in a National Fast Food Chain: A Quasi-Experimental Study.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Why does calorie information produce mixed evidence for its effect on food choices?Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Differences in the Perception of Snacks and Beverages Portion Sizes Depending on Body Mass Index.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Assessing the impact of a mandatory calorie labelling policy in out-of-home food outlets in England on consumer behaviour: a natural experimental study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Menu Labeling and Calories Purchased in Restaurants in a US National Fast Food Chain.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- A multi-country comparison of jurisdictions with and without mandatory nutrition labelling policies in restaurants: analysis of behaviours associated with menu labelling in the 2019 International Food Policy Study.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- The Impact of Nutrition Labelling on Customer Buying Intention and Behaviours in Fast Food Operations: Some Implications for Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Response of the public and restaurant owners to the mandatory menu energy-labelling implementation in restaurants in Saudi Arabia.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- A review of nutrition labeling and food choice in the United States.Obesity science & practice · 2019Review
- The effect of ingredient-specific calorie information on calories ordered.Preventive medicine reports · 2018Article
- Parents' meal choices for their children at fast food and family restaurants with different menu labeling presentations.Nutrition research and practice · 2018Article
- The effects of restaurant nutrition menu labelling on college students' healthy eating behaviours.Public health nutrition · 2017Article
- Food for thought: obstacles to menu labelling in restaurants and cafeterias.Public health nutrition · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe examined the effect on food purchases of adding recommended calorie intake per day or per meal to the mandated calorie information posted on chain restaurant menus.
methodsBefore and after New York City implemented calorie posting on chain restaurant menus in 2008, we provided daily, per-meal, or no calorie recommendations to randomized subsets of adult lunchtime customers (n = 1121) entering 2 McDonald's restaurants, in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and collected receipts and survey responses as they exited. In linear and logistic regressions, with adjustment for gender, race, age, and day, we tested for simple differences in calories consumed and interactions between variables.
resultsPosting calorie benchmarks had no direct impact, nor did it moderate the impact of calorie labels on food purchases. The recommendation appeared to promote a slight increase in calorie intake, attributable to increased purchases of higher-calorie entrées.
conclusionsThese results do not support the introduction of calorie recommendations as a means of enhancing the impact of posted calorie information or reducing the contribution of restaurant dining to the obesity epidemic.
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