Choices Research

In The Netherlands, the first country to introduce the Choices logo, the VU University Amsterdam – under the guidance of Prof. Jaap Seidell – studied the effects of the introduction of the logo in The Netherlands since 2007. The PhD thesis that resulted from this study can be found at http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/33240.  A regularly updated summary of the research on positive front-of-pack labelling can be found in the research overview.

Publications

• Dutch Choices Foundation (2016) Preliminary results analysis innovation of products with the Choices logo. 
• Jansen L & Roodenburg AJC (2015) The use of food composition data in the international Choices Programme. Food Chemistry. 

• Bialkova, S. et al. (2014) Attention mediates the effect of nutrition label information on consumers’ choice. Evidence from a choice experiment involving eye-tracking. Appetite 76, 66-75. 

• Van der Bend, D. et al. (2014). A Simple Visual Model to Compare Existing Front-of-pack Nutrient Profiling Schemes. European Journal of Nutrition and Food Safety, 4 (4): 429-534. 

• de Menezes EW., et al. (2013). Application of Choices criteria in Brazil: impact on nutrient intake and adequacy of food products in relation to compounds associated with the risk of non-transmissible chronic diseases. Food Chemistry (2013). 

• Roodenburg A. et al. (2013). Modelling of usual nutrient intakes: Potential impact of the Choices Programme on nutrient intakes in Young Dutch adults. PLOS ONE [28 August 2013] 

• Gesser-Edelsburg A, et al. (2013) Nutrition labelling and the choices logo in Israel: positions and perceptions of leading health policy makers. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 

• Gallicano R, et al. (2012) Consumer Response to Nutrition Information Menu Labeling in Full-Service Restaurants: Making the Healthy Choice, in Joseph S. Chen (ed.) Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, Volume 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.109-125.
• Hodgkins C, et al. Understanding how consumers categorise nutritional labels; a consumer derived typology for front-of-pack nutrition labelling. Appetite (2012) accepted for publication.
• Louie JCY, et al. (2012) Nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals. Are they improving? Appetite 59 464–470.
• Roberto CA et al. (2012). Facts Up Front Versus Traffic Light Food Labels. A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Prev Med 2012;43(2):134 –141).
• Storcksdiecks et al. (2012). Nutrition Labelling to Prevent Obesity: Reviewing the Evidence from Europe. Current Obesity Reports 1(3): 134-140.
• Van Kleef et al. (2012). The growing role of front-of-pack nutrition profile labelling: A consumer perspective on key issues and controversies. In press: Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.
• Vyth EL, et al. (2012). Methodological quality of front-of-pack labelling studies: A review and identification of research challenges. Nutrition reviews 2012, in press.
• Waterlander W, et al. (2012). Introducing taxes, subsidies or both: The effects of various food pricing strategies in a web-based supermarket randomized trial. Preventive Medicine 54 (2012) 323–330.
• Roodenburg AJC, Popkin BM & Seidell JC (2011) Development of international criteria for a front of package food labelling system: the International Choices Programme. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1-11.
• Roodenburg AJC, et al. (2011). Potential effects of nutrient profiles on nutrient intakes in the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, USA, Israel, China and South-Africa. PLoS ONE 6 (2).
• Temme EHM et al. (2011). Impact of foods with health logo on saturated fat, sodium and sugar intake of young Dutch adults. Public Health Nutrition 14 (4): 635-644.
• Van Herpen E & Van Trijp HCM (2011). Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels: Their Effect on Attention and Choices when Consumers have Varying Goals and Time Constraints. Appetite 57(1):147-160.
• Vyth EL et al. (2011). Consuming a diet complying with front-of-pack criteria may reduce cholesterol levels: a modeling study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 16 November 2011.
• Vyth EL et al. (2011). Influence of Placement of a Nutrition Logo on Cafeteria Menu Items on Lunchtime Food Choices at Dutch Work Sites. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 111: 131-136.
• Vyth EL, van der Meer EWC, Seidell JC, Steenhuis IHM (2011). A nutrition label in worksite cafeterias in the Netherlands: an implementation evaluation across two large catering companies in The Netherlands. Health Promotion International Advance Access, doi: 10.1093/heapro/dar034.
• Bialkova, S & van Trijp HCM (2010). What determines consumer attention to nutrition labels? Food Quality and Preference 21:1042–1051.
• Vyth EL et al. (2010). Actual use of a front-of-pack nutrition logo in the supermarket: Consumers' motives in food choice. Public Health Nutrition, April: 1-8.
• Ik Kies Bewust, effecten van het logo op het koopgedrag (Ik Kies Bewust effects on purchase behaviour). LEI 2010. [in Dutch].
• Steenhuis I et al. (2010). The Effects of Using a Nutrition Logo on Consumption and Product Evaluation of a Sweet Pastry. Appetite, 55(3): 707-709.
• Trichterborn J et al. (2010). Fine bakery wares with label claims in Europe and their categorisation by nutrient profiling models. EJCN: 1-6.
• Vyth EL, Steenhuis IHM, Roodenburg AJC, Brug J, Seidell JC. (2010). Front-of-pack nutrition label stimulates healthier product development: a quantitative analysis. IJBNPA doi:10.1186/1479-5868-7-65.
• Vyth EL et al. (2009). A front-of-pack nutrition logo: a quantitative and qualitative process evaluation in the Netherlands. Journal of Health Communication, 14/7: 631-45.
• Roodenburg AJC et al. (2009). Potential impact of the Choices Programme on nutrient intakes in the Dutch Population. Nutrition Bulletin, 34/3: 318-23.
• Feunekes G et al. (2008). Front- of-pack nutrition labelling: Testing effectiveness of different nutrition labelling formats front-of-pack in four European Countries. Appetite, 50/1: 57-70.
• Dötsch-Klerk M & Jansen L (2008). The Choices programme: a simple, front-of-pack stamp making healthy choices easy. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 17/5 suppl. 1: 383-86.