Effects of plain packaging, warning labels, and taxes on young people’s predicted sugar-sweetened beverage preferences: an experimental study

Bollard, Tessa; Maubach, Ninya; Walker, Natalie; Mhurchú, Cliona Ní

doi:10.1186/s12966-016-0421-7

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“…These proposed regulations have the potential to substantially alter the Brazilian food supply as well as consumers' understanding, perceptions, purchase intentions, and intake of UPF. A recent randomized controlled trial in Brazil found that the exposure to FoP warning labels that only identify unhealthy foods helped consumers understand the unhealthiness of UPF and reduced their intentions to purchase this food [8], consistent with a growing body of literature that shows that warning labels improve consumers' ability to assess the healthfulness of products [10,11] and help them make healthier choices [12][13][14][15]. Conversely, nutrition and health claims have been shown to make consumers think a product is healthier than it actually is, working as a marketing strategy rather than an information tool (i.e., the "health halo" effect) [16,17].…”

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Conflicting Messages on Food and Beverage Packages: Front-of-Package Nutritional Labeling, Health and Nutrition Claims in Brazil

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We assessed the prevalence of front-of-package (FoP) claims in the Brazilian packaged food supply and examined whether foods with claims were more likely to be high in critical nutrients. Using data from a random 30% subsample of 11,434 foods and beverages collected in the five largest food retailers in Brazil in 2017 (n = 3491), we classified claims into nutrition, health, and environment. We examined whether foods with claims were more likely to be high in critical nutrients using 95% confidence intervals. Claims were found in 41.2% of the products. Nutrition claims were the most prevalent (28.5%), followed by health (22.1%), and environment-related claims (5.2%). More than 85% of the breakfast cereals, granola bars, and nectars contained claims, which were found in 51% of the dairy beverages. Foods with nutrition claims were more likely to be high in critical nutrients (65.3%; 95% CI 62.3, 68.2% vs. 54.1% 95% CI 52.1, 56.0). Products with health (52.9%; 95% CI 49.3, 56.4% vs. 58.5%; 95% CI 56.6, 60.3) and environment-related claims (33.5%; 95% CI 27.0, 40.8% vs. 58.6%; 95% CI 56.9, 60.2%) were less likely to be high in critical nutrients. FoP claims are prevalent in Brazil, and nutrition claims are more likely to have a poorer nutritional profile. Policymakers should consider restricting the presence of claims on unhealthy products.

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Conflicting Messages on Food and Beverage Packages: Front-of-Package Nutritional Labeling, Health and Nutrition Claims in Brazil

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“…This study has important research and policy implications. There is convincing evidence on the effects of population prevention strategies and interventions aimed at reducing high sugar in population diets 54–57 . However, the problem of high sugar intake continues to persist worldwide, suggesting either that strategies or interventions are not effective, or that interventions likely to have an impact on consumption levels have not been implemented.…”

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How much free sugar do Australians consume? Findings from a national survey

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To identify the characteristics of Australian adults exceeding the World Health Organization's free sugar (FS) intake recommendations of <10% and compare the sources of FS among those exceeding (high FS consumers) and complying (low FS consumers) with the recommendations.Method: Nationally weighted data from the Australian National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2011-12 was used to describe the proportions of FS consumption and sources of FS among adults aged ≥18 years (n=9,435) across demographic, socioeconomic and health behavioural subgroups. Six categories of food groups likely to contain FS were generated and analysed.Results: Almost half of all adults (47%) were high FS consumers. More than one-third of adults in each demographic, socioeconomic and health behaviour subgroup were high FS consumers. Of the food groups containing FS, beverages contributed the most FS (37%), particularly for young adults (48%). High FS consumers obtained twice as much FS from beverages (42%) than low FS consumers (21%). A reverse age gradient was observed for the FS sourced from beverages. Conclusions:Almost half the Australians surveyed exceeded the FS intake recommendations. Sugary beverages were the largest source of FS, with young adults being the highest consumers.Implications for public health: Whole population strategies targeting beverages could possibly reduce Australia's high sugar intake.

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“…Although plain packaging has most prominently been used as an intervention to reduce tobacco consumption, the introduction of plain packaging could also be an effective way to reduce consumers' purchase of other products where salient cues are present on product packaging, such on sugar-sweetened drinks (Bollard et al 2016; Figure 1). …”

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Right Here, Right Now: Situated Interventions to Change Consumer Habits

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Papies²

2017

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

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Consumer behavior-change interventions have traditionally encouraged consumers to form conscious intentions but, in the past decade, it has been shown that whilst these interventions have a medium-to-large effect in changing intentions, they have a much smaller effect in changing behavior. Consumers often do not act in accordance with their conscious intentions because situational cues in the immediate environment automatically elicit learned, habitual behaviors. It has therefore been suggested that researchers re-focus their efforts on developing interventions that target unconscious, unintentional influences on behavior, such as cuebehavior ('habit') associations. To develop effective consumer behavior-change interventions, however, we argue that it is first important to understand how consumer experiences are represented in memory, in order to successfully target the situational cues that most strongly predict engagement in habitual behavior. In this article, we present a situated cognition perspective of habits, and discuss how the situated cognition perspective extends our understanding of how consumer experiences are represented in memory, and the processes through which these situational representations can be retrieved in order to elicit habitual consumer behaviors. Based on the principles of situated cognition, we then discuss five ways interventions could change consumer habits by targeting situational cues in the consumer environment, and suggest how existing interventions utilizing these behaviorchange strategies could be improved by integrating the principles of the situated cognition approach.

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Effects of plain packaging, warning labels, and taxes on young people’s predicted sugar-sweetened beverage preferences: an experimental study

Cited by 163 publications

References 26 publications

Conflicting Messages on Food and Beverage Packages: Front-of-Package Nutritional Labeling, Health and Nutrition Claims in Brazil

Conflicting Messages on Food and Beverage Packages: Front-of-Package Nutritional Labeling, Health and Nutrition Claims in Brazil

How much free sugar do Australians consume? Findings from a national survey

Right Here, Right Now: Situated Interventions to Change Consumer Habits

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