Nutri-score Labels on the Nutritional Quality of Out-of-home Food Selection

University of Liverpool

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overconsumption; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Labelling condition - Calorie labelling; Behavioral: Labelling condition - Nutri-score labelling; Behavioral: Labelling condition: Nutri-score labelling + educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07423845

NS consortium study

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be asked to make hypothetical food choices in an online simulation study of an OOH delivery app. This study will be a three-arm randomised controlled design, with intervention type as the 3-level grouping variable (Nutri-score labelling vs. Nutri-score labelling with educational intervention vs. no labelling).

Enrollment: 870 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18+
• Frequent user of food delivery platforms (at least once a month on average)
• Can complete the study on a laptop or desktop

Exclusion criteria

• Current or previous diagnosis of an eating disorder
• Currently on appetite supressing medication
• No dietary restrictions including dairy free, sugar free, gluten free (vegetarians and vegans are eligible to participate)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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870 participants in 3 patient groups

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be presented with a menu with calorie labelling only

Treatment:

Behavioral: Labelling condition - Calorie labelling

Nutri-score labelling

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be presented with a menu with calorie labelling and Nutri-score labelling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Labelling condition - Nutri-score labelling

Nutri-score labelling + educational intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be presented with a menu with calorie labelling and Nutri-score labelling. Prior to the food choice task, participants will read an article on Nutri-score as an educational intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Labelling condition: Nutri-score labelling + educational intervention