{"id":1552,"date":"2017-03-15T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalfoodresearchprogram.web.unc.edu\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:23:56","slug":"nutrition-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfoodresearchprogram.org\/nutrition-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: \u201cNo Fat,\u201d \u201cNo Sugar,\u201d no guarantee of nutritional quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrient claims such as \u201cLow Fat\u201d or \u201cSugar Free\u201d on food packaging may give consumers a sense of confidence before they make a purchase, but these claims do not always reflect the overall nutritional quality of the food.<\/p>\n<p>These are the findings of a new study led by GFRP researchers in collaboration with the Duke-UNC USDA Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research. The study, titled<strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2212267217300722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Fat, No Sugar, No Salt\u2026.No Problem?\u00a0Prevalence of \u2018Low-Content\u2019 Nutrient Claims and their Associations with the Nutritional Profile of Food and Beverage Purchases in the United States Low-Content\u2019 Nutrition Claims on Packaged Goods Misleading for Consumers<\/a>,<\/strong>\u201d published online March 15 and will appear in the upcoming issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNC Study: \u201cNo Fat,\u201d \u201cNo Sugar,\u201d no guarantee of nutritional quality\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5_GbSTWhFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lindsey Smith Taillie and her fellow researchers undertook the study to better understand how low-content nutrient claims featured on food and beverage packages relate to purchasing habits, as well as what association these claims have to products\u2019 actual nutritional content. Investigators also examined what demographic groups purchased greater proportions of foods and beverages with low-content claims.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the study in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sph.unc.edu\/sph-news\/unc-gilling-school-study-no-fat-no-sugar-no-guarantee-of-nutritional-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>,<\/strong> or read the full study <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andjrnl.org\/article\/S2212-2672(17)30072-2\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This work was conducted at the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/hpdp.unc.edu\/completed-research\/behavioral-economics-and-healthy-food-choice-research-becr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC-Duke USDA Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research<\/a><\/strong> (BECR) and funded by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/healthyeatingresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healthy Eating Research<\/a>,<\/strong> a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrient claims such as \u201cLow Fat\u201d or \u201cSugar Free\u201d on food packaging may give consumers a sense of confidence before they make a purchase, but these claims do not always reflect the overall nutritional quality of the food. 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