Carnegie Mellon University
June 20, 2016

Helping To Make Better Online Food Choices

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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