NCT05610930

Is a Front-of-package Label Contaning Information on Both Nutrient Profile and Ultra-processing Well Understood?

Effect of a New Graphically Modified Nutri-Score on the Objective Understanding of Foods' Nutritional Quality and Ultra-processing - a Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21,159 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Paris 13 · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A modified version of the Nutri-Score (Nutri-Score 2.0), containing an additional graphic mention when the product is ultra-processed, has been proposed. The investigators aim to study, in a randomised controlled trial design nested in the NutriNet-Santé cohort, the impact of this modified version on the objective understanding of foods' nutritional quality, and on the identification of UPFs as primary outcomes. They also aim to study as secondary outcomes the impact of this label on purchasing intentions and the product perceived as the healthiest.

Detailed description

Two arms will be enrolled. The control arm will not have access to any FOP Label (the current situation in Europe), and the experimental arm will have access to Nutri-Score 2.0. Participants of both arms wil be asked to rank food products of 3 categories (breakfast cereals, cookies, ready-to-eat meals) according to their nutrient profile, and to identify ultra-processed foods.

Conditions

• Objective Understanding of Nutritional Label

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Front-of-pack label NutriScore 2.0	Participants in the experimental arm can see, in case the product is ultra-processed, a black banner surrounding the Nutri-Score, with the word "ultra-transformé", meaning ultra-processed, and no black banner otherwise. Participants in the control arm had no label at all. The intervention (the Nutri-Score 2.0) was added on the packaging on the products included in the 3 sets of images that participants recieved via the questionnaire.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-07
• Completion: 2022-07-07
• First posted: 2022-11-09
• Last updated: 2023-05-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France