Getting consumers to eat more whole-grains: The role of policy, information, and food manufacturers

Food product composition, consumer health, and public policy: Introduction and overview of special section

“…In general, the lower the percentage value of the commodity in the final product and the more competitive the manufacturing and retail sector, the lower the effect of commodity price change on retail price (Leibtag, 2008). 1 For example, commodity price changes have negligible effects on the retail prices of highly processed products with very Mexico soft drink industry has greater flexibility of substitution in response to changing relative prices a Consumption switch from full fat milk to low fat milk and from high fat cheeses to lower fat cheeses b…”

“…Mancino et al (2008) examine the influence of the 2005 USDA Dietary Guidelines in spurring product development to provide more whole grains products for consumers. Unnevehr and Jagmanaite (2008) look at food industry response to the US Food and Drug Administration's regulation requiring disclosure of trans fat content on nutrition labels beginning in 2006.…”

Whole Grains in the Prevention and Treatment of Abdominal Obesity

“…Thus, the definition applied in the research setting is not consistent with the AACC definition of a whole grain, nor does it align with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirement that a food should comprise ≥51% whole grain by weight to be eligible for the whole-grain health claim. Further, given the increased availability of whole-grain products in the food supply chain [63], traditional dietary assessment methods and definitions of whole grains may not adequately capture the variety and increasing abundance of dietary sources of whole grains. Coupled with the aforementioned limitations, these methods also fail to account for the considerable variability of whole-grain content among grain-based foods in which whole grains can comprise 0-100% of the total grain content.…”

Contemporary Investigations of Pakistan Food Insecurity and Trends of Global Food Supply and Demand

“…It is suggested that future food supply will be managed as prudent management of agricultural resources, investment in effective technologies along with efficient reforms in policies and institution to accomplish substantial increase in food production [ 19]. Hence food demand measures would be implausible to be a pathway, as food traditions and human diets which might be extremely difficult to influence [20,21],as income grows [22]. It is found that global demand of agricultural crops has been increasing and this trend may continue to do so, despite that global population also increase by a 2.3 billion person and anticipated greater per capita income through this midcentury [12].…”