Effects of different discount levels on healthy products coupled with a healthy choice label, special offer label or both: Results from a web-based supermarket experiment

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Waterlander, Wilma E ^a,d   Steenhuis, Ingrid H M ^a   de Boer, Michiel R ^a,b   Schuit, Albertine J ^a,c   Seidell, Jacob C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences School of Population Health   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Experiment; Food labelling; Food pricing; Health promotion; Intervention; Price discounts; Public health nutrition; Supermarket; Virtual supermarket

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PROCESSING; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PURCHASING; WEB BROWSER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DIET; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; TAXES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878466134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-10-59     Document Type: Article

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