Trial reportNutrients2020
Effectiveness of Different Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels among Italian Consumers: Results from an Online Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Five Types of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels on Consumer Behavior among Young Adults: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
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- Nutri-Score and NutrInform Battery: Effects on Performance and Preference in Italian Consumers.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Nudging customers towards healthier food and beverage purchases in a real-life online supermarket: a multi-arm randomized controlled trial.BMC medicine · 2022Trial
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- Directive vs. Reductive Front-of-Pack Labels: Differences in Italian Consumers' Responses to the Nutri-Score and the NutrInform Battery.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Assessment of the influence of Nutri-Score on Polish consumer Choices - Insights from the nationwide, Cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Food label literacy and its determinants among residents of Bathinda city: A mixed methods study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
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- A Little Bird Told Me… Nutri-Score Panoramas from a Flight over Europe, Connecting Science and Society.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Effect of a new graphically modified Nutri-Score on the objective understanding of foods' nutrient profile and ultraprocessing: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2023Article
- Nutritional Assessment of Ready-to-Eat Salads in German Supermarkets: Comparison of the nutriRECIPE-Index and the Nutri-Score.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Legitimacy of Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels: Controversy Over the Deployment of the Nutri-Score in Italy.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Consumer Awareness of the Degree of Industrial Food Processing and the Association with Healthiness-A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Understanding of the Nutri-Score front-of-pack label by Italian Medical Professionals and its effect on food choices: a web-based study on knowledge, attitudes and practices.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Are Front-of-Pack Labels a Health Policy Tool?Nutrients · 2022Review
- Is it really a piece of cake to label Geographical Indications with the Nutri-Score? Consumers' behaviour and policy implications.PloS one · 2022Article
- The influence of the Nutri-Score on the perceived healthiness of foods labelled with a nutrition claim of sugar.PloS one · 2022Article
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
In Italy, discussions are currently ongoing to implement a front-of-pack nutrition label (FoPL) while a growing number of European countries are adopting the Nutri-Score. The effectiveness of the Nutri-Score among Italian consumers requires further investigation. This study compared five FoPLs among Italian participants (Health Star Rating system, multiple traffic lights, Nutri-Score, reference intakes, warning symbol) in terms of food choices and understanding of the labels by consumers. In 2019, 1032 Italian consumers completed an online survey in which they were asked to select one product they would likely purchase from a set of three foods with different nutrient profiles and then classify the products within the set according to their nutritional quality, first with no label and then with one of the five FoPLs on the pack. While no significant difference across labels was observed for food choices, the Nutri-Score demonstrated the highest overall performance in helping consumers to correctly rank the products according to their nutritional quality compared to the reference intakes (OR = 2.18 (1.50-3.17),
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