The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-14

  Cawley, John ^a   Sweeney, Matthew J ^b   Sobal, Jeffery ^a   Just, David R ^a   Kaiser, Harry M ^a   Schulze, William D ^a   Wethington, Elaine ^a   Wansink, Brian ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Food choice influences; Nutrition ratings system; Purchasing influences; Supermarkets

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; BEVERAGE; CLASSIFICATION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMAN; NEW YORK; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; UNITED STATES;

BEVERAGES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD LABELING; HUMANS; NEW ENGLAND; NEW YORK; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 84905327595     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014001529     Document Type: Article

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