Carnegie Mellon University
June 20, 2016

Helping To Make Better Online Food Choices

Helping To Make Better Online Food Choices

Menu labels have become a favorite tool for policymakers to fight obesity, despite a lack of evidence that the format encourages people to make healthier food choices. However, new research shows that “traffic light” color-coded labels, numeric labels and a combination of the two reduce the number of calories ordered in online food orders by about 10 percent.

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