Calorie marking in restaurants: Effect remains disappointing!

Calorie marking in restaurants: Effect remains disappointing!

A new look at the culinary habits of the British exposes alarming truths: Despite the obligation to identify calories in large restaurants and fast food chains href = "https://www.heute.at/s/mahlzeit-kalorie-schrecken-uns-nicht-ab-120075685"> Nature Human Behavior , only 22 percent of the guests stated that they use the calorie information to make healthier decisions. The study comprised 330 restaurants and interviewed almost 6,600 guests.

shocking results of the study

The investigation shows that the average customers greatly underestimated the calorie content of their meals. Before the calorie identification, only 16.5 percent of the respondents noticed this information, after the introduction this share only rose to 31.8 percent. In England, around 26.2 percent of adults are struggling with obesity, and the government hopes for a positive turn through such measures. However, the effect seems to be low so far, as the researchers at the University of Liverpool and their partner institutions have found.

Not only the British faces the challenge of making consumers understandable the nutritional quality of their food. In several other European countries, including France and Germany, the Nutri score system was introduced, which assigns food in the supermarket a color-encoded assessment based on the nutritional value. This could be a more effective way to promote health -conscious decisions. In Germany, regulations such as the minimum size of 1.2 mm for labels must also be observed so that all information is clear and unmistakable, such as Demendate guidelines