Health campaigners today welcomed a new Government-backed food labelling system which will standardise the baffling array of front-of-pack designs which have confused shoppers for years.
"It must make sure front-of-pack traffic light labelling is used on all food products and clear calorie labelling is provided in all food chains.
We want manufactured foods to be clearly labelled, and have had success, so far, with campaigning for front-of-pack traffic-light labelling.
A front-of-pack colour coding and nutritional information system is currently being used.
However, this result was obtained with graphic warning labels whereas, in the UK, front-of-pack warnings are text only.
However, the potential effects of front-of-pack image-sizes of serving suggestions and sugar content have not been tested.
Finally, the general pattern of attentional prioritization across front-of-pack designs was consistent across a diverse sample of participants.
Many stakeholders support introducing an interpretive front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition label, but disagree over the form it should take.
This study aims at comparing the impact of front-of-pack nutrition labels on consumers' purchasing intentions.
A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.
We used a change detection method to evaluate attentional prioritization of nutrition information that appears in the traditional "Nutrition Facts Panel" and in front-of-pack nutrition labels.
