ArticlePublic health nutrition2018
Physical activity-equivalent label reduces consumption of discretionary snack foods.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Calorie (energy) labelling for changing selection and consumption of food or alcohol.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Designing a new physical activity calorie equivalent food label and comparing its effect on caloric choices to that of the traffic light label among mothers: a mixed-method study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention to prevent weight gain over the Christmas holiday period: randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Trial
- The Negative Effects of Long Time Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Labeling on Purchase Intention for Unhealthy Food.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- PACE Labels on Healthy and Unhealthy Snack Products in a Laboratory Shopping Setting: Perception, Visual Attention, and Product Choice.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Differential Effects of Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Labeling on Consumer Preferences for Healthy and Unhealthy Food Products: Evidence from a Choice Experiment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Response of More Health Focused and Less Health Focused People to a Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Label on Discretionary Snack Foods.Nutrients · 2019Article
- The Influence of Taste Liking on the Consumption of Nutrient Rich and Nutrient Poor Foods.Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe present research aimed to investigate the impact of the physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) front-of-pack label on consumption, prospective consumption and liking of familiar and unfamiliar discretionary snack foods.
designIn a within-subject randomised design, participants tasted and rated liking (9-point hedonic scale) and prospective consumption (9-point category scale) of four different snack foods with four different labels (i.e. blank, fake, PACE, PACE doubled) and four control snack foods. The twenty snack foods were presented during two 45 min sessions (i.e. ten snack foods per session) which were separated by one week. The amount participants sampled of each snack food was measured.
settingThe study was conducted in the Centre for Advanced Sensory Sciences laboratory at Deakin University, Australia. SUBJECTS: The participants were 153 university students (126 females, twenty-seven males, mean age 24·3 (sd 4·9) years) currently enrolled in an undergraduate nutrition degree at Deakin University.
resultsWhen the PACE label was present on familiar snack foods, participants sampled 9·9 % (22·8 (sem 1·4) v. 25·3 (sem 1·5) g, P=0·03) less than when such label was not present. This was in line with a decreased prospective snack food consumption of 9·1 % (3·0 (sem 0·2) v. 3·3 (sem 0·2) servings, P=0·03). Such pattern was not seen in unfamiliar snacks.
conclusionsThe PACE label appears to be a promising way to decrease familiar discretionary snack food consumption in young, health-minded participants.
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