ReviewJournal of community health2014
The influence of calorie labeling on food orders and consumption: a review of the literature.
Review in Journal of community health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 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
- Menu labelling is effective in reducing energy ordered and consumed: a systematic review and meta-analysis of recent studies.Public health nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- The effect of healthier menu item price reductions in the out-of-home food sector on energy purchased and consumed: a restaurant-based pilot experiment.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Impact of health warning labels and calorie labels on selection and purchasing of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks: A randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Trial
- Exploring the effects of added sugar labels on food purchasing behaviour in Australian parents: An online randomised controlled trial.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Cafeteria Online: Nudges for Healthier Food Choices in a University Cafeteria-A Randomized Online Experiment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Testing the efficacy of and parents' preferences for nutrition labels on children's menus from a full-service chain restaurant: results of an online experiment.Public health nutrition · 2020Trial
- The Effect of Randomly Providing Nutri-Score Information on Actual Purchases in Colombia.Nutrients · 2019Trial
- Eyes on the Fries: An Eye-Tracking Study of Motivated Attention and Calorie Labeling on Fast-Food Menus.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Examining use of restaurant nutrition information among adults living in England engaged in disordered eating or weight management efforts.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Changes in out-of-home food purchasing following the introduction of England's calorie labelling regulations: a population-level controlled interrupted time series analysis.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Why does calorie information produce mixed evidence for its effect on food choices?Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Evaluating the association between the introduction of mandatory calorie labelling and energy consumed using observational data from the out-of-home food sector in England.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
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- Food Chain and Food Policies: Causes and Solutions for the Obesity Pandemic.Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal · 2025Review
- Assessing the Validity of Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels for Evaluating the Healthiness of Mediterranean Food Choices: A Global Comparison.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Front-of-Package-Label-Style Health Logos on Menus-Do Canadian Consumers Really Care about Menu Health Logos?Nutrients · 2024Article
- Towards a conceptual framework for the prevention of gambling-related harms: Findings from a scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Obesity is a challenging public health problem that affects millions of Americans. Increasingly policy makers are seeking environmental and policy-based solutions to combat and prevent its serious health effects. Calorie labeling mandates, including the provision in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that is set to begin in 2014, have been one of the most popular and most studied approaches. This review examines 31 studies published from January 1, 2007 through July 19, 2013. It builds on Harnack and French's 2008 review and assesses the evidence on the effectiveness of calorie labeling at the point of purchase. We find that, while there are some positive results reported from studies examining the effects of calorie labeling, overall the best designed studies (real world studies, with a comparison group) show that calorie labels do not have the desired effect in reducing total calories ordered at the population level. Moving forward, researchers should consider novel, more effective ways of presenting nutrition information, while keeping a focus on particular subgroups that may be differentially affected by nutrition policies.
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