10.6084/m9.figshare.11453154.v1
Carolina Lôbo de Almeida Barros JACINTHO
Carolina Lôbo de Almeida Barros
JACINTHO
Paulo César Brandão Veiga JARDIM
Paulo César Brandão Veiga
JARDIM
Ana Luiza Lima SOUSA
Ana Luiza Lima
SOUSA
Thiago Souza Veiga JARDIM
Thiago Souza Veiga
JARDIM
Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso SOUZA
Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso
SOUZA
Brazilian food labeling: a new proposal and its impact on consumer understanding
SciELO journals
2019
food labeling
nutritional facts
industrialized foods
food
2019-12-25 03:01:10
Dataset
https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Brazilian_food_labeling_a_new_proposal_and_its_impact_on_consumer_understanding/11453154
<div><p>Abstract The difficulty in understanding food labels demands their reformulation. The objective was to elaborate a proposal of nutritional labeling and to compare its understanding with current labels. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016. Socioeconomic and health data were collected and questionnaires were used to evaluate reading and comprehension of the current label (Group A) and the proposed label (Group P). Student's t test and chi-square test (p <5%) were applied. A total of 980 consumers participated at supermarkets in a Brazilian capital, with 38.2 ± 13.9 years old, predominantly women, high school, family income of 2 to 4 minimum wages, without chronic disease, and Body Mass Index of 25,6 ± 4.7 kg/m2. Reading and comprehension were satisfactory for 54.1% and 36.1% of Group A and for 93.3% and 96.9% of Group P, respectively. Among the interviewees, 36.5% reported that the current label helped and 97.5% for the proposed label. All the answers had differences when comparing the groups (p <0.05) and the comprehension of the proposed label was higher (p = 0.026). Conclusion: the understanding of the proposed label was better than that of the current label, reinforcing the need for its reformulation.</p></div>