‘3 of your 5-a-day’ labels keep the fruit and veggies away

最近发表的一篇文章BMC公共卫生着眼于“您的5日”中的“ 3个”与“ 1天”冰沙产品标签的“ 1”与“ 1”的“ 1”如何影响随后的水果和蔬菜的消费。

我们如何确保不使用营养标签,使制作5日索赔的营养标签被错误地给人以一种产品健康的印象?

WHO 5日的水果和蔬菜(FV)指南通常建议将果汁考虑为一个FV部分,无论其数量多少,基于加工和纤维崩溃的原因。

如果产品声称包含您5天的FV的两个或更多部分,则应来自多个水果或蔬菜,还应确保份量合适,饱和脂肪的量是合适的和糖有限。

尽管在各个国家 /地区有政府计划,但制造商有时会在食品包装上提出自己的主张,而政府法规不涵盖。前提是制造商遵循该行业的最佳实践指南,这应该意味着该产品一份含有80克(或更多)的水果或蔬菜。

强调产品健康成分的食品标签可以对健康的饮食特征产生积极影响。但是,如果产品的“健康组成部分”被夸大,这可能会导致负面影响。

考虑到这一点,伯恩茅斯大学的研究人员进行了一项研究,最近发表在BMC公共卫生,调查的影响你的5 - 3a-day’ versus a ‘1 of your 5-a-day’ smoothie product label on subsequent FV consumption. Using an acute experimental design, 194 participants (90 males, 104 females) were randomized to consume a smoothie labelled as either ‘3 of your 5-a-day’ or ‘1 of your 5-a-day’ in full, following a usual breakfast.

使用了两个FV产品标签。Each product label stated the product as a ‘smoothie’, included the smoothie flavor, and stated either ‘3 of your 5-a-day’ or ‘1 of your 5-a-day’, using the recognized national UK logo for the 5-a-day FV message. All participants were asked to look at their smoothie before consumption and were required to consume their smoothie in full, although neither the label nor the message were mentioned

随后使用24小时召回评估了FV消耗。

作者发现,与通常的早餐后,接触“每天5次”的FV标签中的“ 3个”标签导致随后的FV消耗减少,而接触“您的5日”标签中的1个标签。这可能是通过以下事实来解释的:消费者认为他们通过使用该标签消费产品来实现饮食目标的较高依从性,因此使自己降低了随后的FV消费量的依从性。

The effect viewed was largely driven by changes in consumption in usual high FV consumers, in females, and in vegetable as opposed to fruit consumption.

这项研究的结果表明,就FV提供提供了有关食品产品标签的夸大信息的潜在危险。可能需要更大的法规来确保这些类型的消息的准确性。

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