Nutrition knowledge and consumer use of nutritional food labels

Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Lazaridis, Panagiotis; Nayga, Rodolfo M.

doi:10.1093/erae/jbi003

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“…Equation (3) shows that the consumer can invest in the amount of nutritional information he/she possesses by acquiring new information (or by refreshing his/her knowledge). m reflects the efficiency of the consumer to derive and process information from one unit of time N that he/she spends gathering information (0 £ m £ 1).…”

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“…For example, Drichoutis et al [3], Guthrie et al [4], Kim et al [5,6] and Nayga [2,7] empirically investigated the factors that affect nutritional food label use.…”

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“…For example, there has been no consensus on the effect of age or income on nutritional label use (e.g., [3,6,[8][9][10][11][12]). For other factors, the literature points to a onedirection relationship.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For other factors, the literature points to a onedirection relationship. For example, education has been found to positively affect label use and females have been found more likely to use nutritional labels than males [2][3][4][5][6][12][13][14][15]. Household size has also been found to have an effect on label use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Household size has also been found to have an effect on label use. Specifically, smaller households are more likely to engage in nutrition information search behaviours than larger households [3,4,15]. Meal planners are less likely to engage in nutrition information search [3] (for more information about the nutritional label use literature, see Drichoutis et al [16] for a thorough review).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A theoretical and empirical investigation of nutritional label use

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Due in part to increasing diet-related health problems caused, among others, by obesity, nutritional labelling has been considered important, mainly because it can provide consumers with information that can be used to make informed and healthier food choices. Several studies have focused on the empirical perspective of nutritional label use. None of these studies, however, have focused on developing a theoretical economic model that would adequately describe nutritional label use based on a utility theoretic framework. We attempt to fill this void by developing a simple theoretical model of nutritional label use, incorporating the time a consumer spends reading labels as part of the food choice process. The demand equations of the model are then empirically tested. Results suggest the significant role of several variables that flow directly from the model which, to our knowledge, have not been used in any previous empirical work.

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Section: The Theoretical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Drichoutis et al [3], Guthrie et al [4], Kim et al [5,6] and Nayga [2,7] empirically investigated the factors that affect nutritional food label use.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information, labelling, and vertical coordination: an analysis of the Italian meat supply networks

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Stranieri

2008

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After the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis, the European Union (EU) introduced mandatory and voluntary labelling for meat products to reduce the food safety concerns of consumers and to ensure a better distribution of liability among agents of the meat supply chain. The purpose of this article is to evaluate whether voluntary traceability labelling, introduced by Regulation 1760|2000, can be considered a useful instrument for both the producers and consumers of meat products. Attention is focused on the vertical coordination effects of introducing voluntary labelling along the beef chain and on the interest the Italian consumer shows in labelled information on meat products. Two surveys were conducted: one addressing Italian meat organizations that signed voluntary labelling agreements and the other a sample of 1,025 Italian consumers. With regard to supply, the survey revealed that improved traceability led to a better redistribution of liability among the agents of the meat supply chain and to a strengthening of vertical agreements. Regarding the consumers, the results showed a notable consumer interest in the labelled information such as the meat origin and the information related to the system of cattle breeding, cattle feeding, and the date of slaughtering. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.,

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