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Food Label Use, Self‐Selectivity, and Diet Quality
Author(s) -
KIM SUNGYONG,
NAYGA RODOLFO M.,
CAPPS ORAL
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2001.tb00118.x
Subject(s) - environmental health , quality (philosophy) , food quality , healthy eating , scale (ratio) , index (typography) , nutrition facts label , food choice , food science , psychology , medicine , geography , computer science , physical activity , biology , philosophy , cartography , epistemology , world wide web , physical medicine and rehabilitation , pathology
Food labels provide measurable benefits by improving diet quality of Americans by as much as four to six points on a 100‐point Healthy Eating Index scale. Among nutritional panels, serving sizes, nutrient content claims, list of ingredients, and health claims, the use of health claims on food labels provides the highest level of improvement in diet quality. The data source for this analysis is the 1994 to 1996 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes for Individuals (CSFII) and the accompanying Diet and Health Knowledge Survey (DHKS).