NCT02804503

The Effect of Menu Labels on Calories Ordered in Hispanics

The Effect of Menu Labels on Food Choices in Hispanics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 372 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Christian University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Most studies on menu labels have been conducted in mostly non-Hispanic white individuals, and how menu labels affect calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics is not clearly understood. This study evaluated the impact of menu labels on calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics.

Detailed description

According to review studies, calorie labels on menus is not effective in reducing the number of calories ordered or consumed. Adding contextual information such as the energy needs per meal or interpretive information such as minutes of walking needed to burn the food calories or rank-ordering the food items from the lowest to the highest calorie content may be more effective in making food selections with fewer calories. Most studies on menu labels have, however, been conducted in mostly non-Hispanic white individuals, and how menu labels affect food choices in Hispanics in not well understood. This study evaluated the impact of menu labels on calories and macronutrients ordered in Hispanics by randomly assigning the participants to a menu with no labels (no labels), a menu with rank ordered calorie labels and a statement on the energy needs per meal (calorie labels), and a menu with rank ordered exercise labels (exercise labels). Calories and macronutrients ordered by the participants was assessed.

Conditions

• Food Selection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Calorie Labels	Participants were asked to order food from the assigned menu as if they were having lunch in a fast food restaurant.
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise Labels	Participants were asked to order food from the assigned menu as if they were having lunch in a fast food restaurant.
BEHAVIORAL	No Labels	Participants were asked to order food from the assigned menu as if they were having lunch in a fast food restaurant.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2016-06-17
• Last updated: 2016-06-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States