Monitoring health and nutrition claims on food labels in Brazil [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionIntroductionThe monitoring of nutrition and health claims on food and beverage labels has been proposed by international and national organizations because it can collaborate with the development of public policies to regulate food labeling and marketing
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Heart Images on Food Labels: A Health Claim or Not? [PDF]
Foods, 2021 Health claims on food labels are used by food manufacturers to inform consumers about the health effects of a product, and such claims can have notable effects on consumer preferences.
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How effective is food industry self-substantiation of food-health relationships underpinning health claims on food labels in Australia? [PDF]
Public Health Nutr, 2019 AbstractObjectiveThe Food Standards Code regulates health claims on Australian food labels. General-level health claims highlight food–health relationships, e.g. ‘contains calcium for strong bones’. Food companies making claims must notify Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and certify that a systematic literature review (SLR) substantiating ...
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Glycemic index claims on food labels: review of Health Canada's evaluation [PDF]
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013 Recently Health Canada (HC) published its opinion that including glycemic index (GI) values on food labels would be misleading and not add value to nutrition labeling and dietary guidelines to help consumers make healthier food choices. Important areas of concern were identified by HC, but the discussion of them is scientifically invalid.
Thomas M.S. Wolever
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Health Canada’s evaluation of the use of glycemic index claims on food labels [PDF]
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013 The glycemic index (GI) is a system that ranks foods according to the blood glucose-increasing potential of servings of foods that provide the same amount of available carbohydrate. The GI was originally developed as a tool for carbohydrate exchange in the dietary management of glycemia in persons with diabetes, and studies have generally supported ...
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The nutrient quality and labelling of ready-to-eat snack foods with health and/or nutrition claims
The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021 Background: Nutrition claims on food labels are used to attract attention to products. Inaccurate claims on ready-to-eat (RTE) snack food products may mislead consumers into consuming a higher volume of a seemingly ‘healthy’ product.
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Modelling the dietary impact of health-related claims on food labels in the UK [PDF]
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2020 AbstractHealth-related claims (HRCs) are statements found on food packets that convey the nutritional quality of a food (nutrition claims) and/or its impact on a health outcome (health claims). Foods carrying HRCs have a slightly improved nutritional profile than foods without HRCs, however, it's unclear whether this translates into dietary ...
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Students' perception and awareness of the significance of consumer food and health claims on food labels [PDF]
Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo, 2023 Food manufacturers communicate with their consumers via food labels, information, and advertisement. Therefore, manufacturers are obliged to pay great attention to these elements.
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Estimated effects of the implementation of the Mexican warning labels regulation on the use of health and nutrition claims on packaged foods [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021 Background The use of health and nutrition claims on front-of-pack labels may impact consumers’ food choices; therefore, many countries have established regulations to avoid misinformation.
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Regulating health claims on food labels using nutrient profiling: what will the proposed standard mean in the Australian supermarket? [PDF]
Public Health Nutr, 2013 Hughes C +4 more
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