Health-related on-pack communication and nutritional value of ready-to-eat breakfast cereals evaluated against five nutrient profiling schemes

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Maschkowski, Gesa ^a   Hartmann, Monika ^a   Hoffmann, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Import Promotion Desk   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakfast cereals; Consumer information; Food labelling; Food legislation; Health claims; Nutrient profiles

Indexed keywords

BREAKFAST CEREAL; CHILD; CONSUMER; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; NORWAY; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PORTION SIZE; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; WHOLE GRAIN; CEREAL; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEAL;

BREAKFAST; CEREALS; CHILD; FOOD LABELING; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NORWAY; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 84940996976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1178     Document Type: Article

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