Jürkenbeck, Kristin

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","e0272220"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","8"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","PLoS One"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","17"],["dc.contributor.author","Jürkenbeck, Kristin"],["dc.contributor.author","Mehlhose, Clara"],["dc.contributor.author","Zühlsdorf, Anke"],["dc.contributor.editor","Louie, Jimmy"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-09-01T09:51:01Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-09-01T09:51:01Z"],["dc.date.issued","2022"],["dc.description.abstract","High sugar intake in humans is associated with the development of overweight and other diet-related diseases. The World Health Organization and other health organizations recommend limiting the sugar intake to 10% of the total energy intake. There have been different approaches of front-of-pack labelling to reduce the amount of sugar in food products. Companies use nutrition claims to advertise the sugar content (e.g., without added sugar, 30% less sugar). Such nutrition claims can lead to false assumptions about the healthiness of foods and can lead to health-halo effects. Nutrition claims make products appear healthier than they really are, the aspect advertised in the nutrition claim is transferred to the entire food product. As a result, food products can be perceived as healthy even though they are not. Recently, the Nutri-Score was introduced in an increasing number of countries throughout Europe to provide consumers with an overview of the overall nutritional quality of a product. This study analyzes if the Nutri-Score can help to prevent health-halo effects caused by nutrition claims on sugar. Therefore, an online survey consisting of a split-sample design with more than 1,000 respondents was assessed. The results show that, depending on the initial perceived healthiness of a product, the Nutri-Score is able to prevent health-halo effects caused by claims on sugar. Making the Nutri-Score mandatory when using nutrition claims would be one possible way to reduce misperceptions about unhealthy food and reduce health-halo effects caused by claims on sugar."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Federation of German Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband"],["dc.description.sponsorship","German Research Foundation and the Open Access Publication Funds of the University of Goettingen"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1371/journal.pone.0272220"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/113857"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-597"],["dc.relation.eissn","1932-6203"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"],["dc.title","The influence of the Nutri-Score on the perceived healthiness of foods labelled with a nutrition claim of sugar"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","unpublished"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]