Prevalence of nutrition and health-related claimson pre-packaged foods: A five-country study in europe

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Hieke, Sophie ^a   Kuljanic, Nera ^a   Pravst, Igor ^b,c   Miklavec, Krista ^b   Kaur, Asha ^d   Brown, Kerry A ^e   Egan, Bernadette M ^e   Pfeifer, Katja ^f   Gracia, Azucena ^g   Rayner, Mike ^d  

^a European Food Information Council ^*  (Belgium)

^b Nutrition Institute   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food supply; Health claims; Health symbols; Monitoring; Nutrition claims

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIET; EUROPE; FAST FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH RELATED CLAIM; LEGAL ASPECT; NUTRITIONAL CLAIM; PRE PACKAGED DRINK; PRE PACKAGED FOOD; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEVERAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LAW; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; ORGANIC FOOD;

BEVERAGES; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FAST FOODS; FOOD LABELING; FOOD, ORGANIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEGISLATION, FOOD; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 84960090670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8030137     Document Type: Article

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