ArticleNutrition bulletin2025
Self-Reported Attention to Positive Versus Negative Nutrients During Breakfast Cereal Selection Is Associated With Healthier Food Choice.
Article in Nutrition bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Perspective: What is the Likely Impact of the Proposed Food and Drug Administration Front-of-Package Criteria on the Labeling of Foods?Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Nutritional guidance sometimes prioritises avoiding certain 'negative' nutrients over seeking out 'positive' nutrients (i.e., nutrients recommended to "limit" or "increase" in dietary guidelines). This study evaluated the association between attention to positive or negative nutrients and the nutritional quality of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal choices. In an online survey, 962 adult US residents chose from 33 cereals displayed with nutritional information (i.e., energy, fat, sugar, sodium (negative), fibre, potassium, iron [positive]). After choosing, participants reported use of nutritional information. A "Guiding Stars" (GS) rating, which categorises foods based on their nutrient contents (not displayed to panellists during food choice), was used to categorise the healthfulness of cereals. Ordinal logistic regression was used to determine the relationship between attention to positive or negative nutrients and the GS rating of cereal choices. Each positive nutrient considered increased the odds of selecting a cereal with a higher GS rating 2.83 (95% confidence interval: 2.13, 3.80) times compared with someone considering no nutrients, which was significantly higher (p = 0.0015) than each additional negative nutrient considered (1.55 [1.33, 1.82]). For people considering only negative nutrients, the odds of selecting a cereal with a higher GS rating was 2.55 (1.89, 3.47) times that of someone considering no nutrients, but was 6.76 (3.72, 12.58) or 8.86 (6.09, 13.03) for people that considered only positive or both positive and negative nutrients. Thus, nutritional recommendations that highlight the importance of considering positive nutrients may be more effective at increasing the nutritional quality of food choices than messages focused on avoidance of negative nutrients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.