5-colour nutrition label most effective for consumers

Researchers have demonstrated that the 5-colour nutrition label (5-CNL) is the most effective nutritional information system for allowing consumers to recognise and compare the nutritional quality of foods. The 5-CNL is based on the calculation of a nutritional quality score which takes several elements present on the nutrition label into account to arrive at a unique indicator of the nutritional quality of the food.
The researchers compared the effect of different nutrition labels on the front of packs: the 5-CNL the Green Tick, the Multiple Traffic Light and the Guideline Daily Amounts. An article about the research is published in Nutrients (Press Release Inserm, 28 August 2015).
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