The nutrient quality and labelling of ready-to-eat snack foods with health and/or nutrition claims [PDF]
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.
Andrea Susan Bursey+2 more
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Heart Images on Food Labels: A Health Claim or Not? [PDF]
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.
Krista Miklavec+3 more
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Monitoring health and nutrition claims on food labels in Brazil [PDF]
IntroductionThe 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
Carolina Kikuta+3 more
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Students' perception and awareness of the significance of consumer food and health claims on food labels [PDF]
Food manufacturers communicate with their consumers via food labels, information, and advertisement. Therefore, manufacturers are obliged to pay great attention to these elements.
Bajkanović Jovana+4 more
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How effective is food industry self-substantiation of food-health relationships underpinning health claims on food labels in Australia? [PDF]
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 ...
Wellard-Cole L+3 more
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Food Labels: Trends in Use of Nutrition and Health Claims on New Zealand Foods and Beverages [PDF]
Nutrition and health claims have been regulated by Standard 1.2.7 of the Food Standards Code since 2016. Standard 1.2.7 was introduced in 2013, with a three-year transition period.
Julie North+5 more
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The Prevalence and Compliance of Health Claims Used in the Labelling and Information for Prepacked Foods within Great Britain [PDF]
In the EU and Great Britain (GB), all health claims (HCs) on food must be authorised before use and should comply with Regulation 1924/2006. In GB, all HCs, authorised or not, are listed in the Great Britain Nutrition and Health Claims Register.
Emma Coates+2 more
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Glycemic index claims on food labels: review of Health Canada's evaluation [PDF]
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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Estimated effects of the implementation of the Mexican warning labels regulation on the use of health and nutrition claims on packaged foods [PDF]
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.
Carlos Cruz-Casarrubias+3 more
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Health Canada’s evaluation of the use of glycemic index claims on food labels [PDF]
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 ...
Alfred Aziz+2 more
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