THE IMPACT OF FOOD LABELS ON THE FOOD CHOICES OF COLLEGE OF

EDUCATION STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST - MANILA

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Based on the article of Hutt, and Gonzalez (2014), entitled “Food labeling”, the major

way of communicating with a consumer about a product is through the food label. It is

controlled to ensure that the food label has the necessary information and is reliable.

The food label not only communicates the contents of a product to the buyer, but it may

also give important information to someone who is allergic to certain foods. Food labels

are meant to both entice customers and educate them about the contents of the

product. The food label must include an appropriate description of the contents to

prevent consumers from being misled about the product. In conclusion, Food labels are

an essential public health tool for promoting a healthy diet and thereby improving public

health. Consumers can benefit from the information to better comprehend the nutritional

worth of food. It contains facts that will assist you in making appropriate dietary choices.

It allows customers to assess the nutritional value of similar food products and then

make healthy eating choices based on the nutrition information provided.

According to this article that relates with our study that the impact of food labels on

food choices are useful and helpful to a certain extent that the food labels are the

median of communication for consumers and manufacturers to inform and educate what
ingredients were used for a certain product that consumers will have a wide variety for

their food choices to improve and make healthy food preferences.

In the article entitled “Food Labelling Made Simple”, indicates that nutritional fact

labels are needed for the majority of packaged goods. Nutritional fact label includes a

standard nutrient per serving, per gram, or per milliliter. Energy, protein, fat, saturated

fat, carbs, sugars, and salt are all included. Date markings and lot identification, net

weight, claims, nutritional profile, allergies, warnings, advisory statements, and

identifying your goods are all included on food labels. In result, the nutritional profile

score is used to establish the food's appropriateness to carry specific nutrient or health

claims, or as part of the process to decide the number of stars for the food's health star

rating. Nutrient profiling divides foods into certain categories and then utilizes nutrients

having a large negative health impact to compute baseline points, such as calories,

saturated fat, carbohydrates, and salt. Depending on the food category the product

belongs to and the total baseline points established, the product might then collect

positive nutrition points for fruits and vegetables, protein, and dietary fiber. The

difference between the baseline points and the positive nutrition points yields the final

score. Every food group has a distinct total score range (Banks, 2012).

Based on this article it has a relationship with our study for the reason of most of the

consumers have nutrition facts illiteracy still and all food labels puts standards on every

packaged goods most of it has negative impact for consumers mostly on calories,

saturated fat, carbohydrates, and salt which are the first information that consumers
seek however manufacturers still situates specific nutrient count or health claims to

make consumers purchase for their healthy food choices. All in all, food labels have a

good impact on consumers and their food choices yet they have to be meticulous

especially on the ingredients of every product that they choose for their healthy food

choices.

In the article entitled “The Importance of Food Labelling”, stated food labeling is one

method for consumers to learn more about the foods they are considering purchasing.

Interpreting the information on food labels (such as expiry dates, handling directions,

and allergy warnings) accurately can help customers avoid food-borne disease and

allergic responses. The method of this study is Five Food Labeling System. In

conclusion, Food labeling is essential. Not only is it a legal necessity for food producers,

but it also helps customers make educated food purchases and securely store and

utilize the food they've purchased (Eufic, 2011).

This article that has a connection on our study on account of indicates that food

labelling is helpful for the health, expiry dates, storage instructions and food preferences

that can help and guide the consumers in a substantial way and for the legality of a food

producer. Food labels have a significant impact for consumers educating and giving

information for their food choices to be better and healthy.

Similarly, Chavasit (2017) in his article entitled “Nutrition Labelling: Educational Tool

for Reducing Risks of Obesity-Related Non-Communicable Diseases”, for decades,

various nutrition food labeling forms seen on the back of food containers have been
utilized as instructional aides to convey information on nutrient quantities in order to

avoid both under- and over-nutrition. Nevertheless, due to complexity, these traditional

panels have proven useless for consumer education. Consumers' reading of nutrition

label panels influences their food choice. Many nations' governments and non-

governmental groups seek to reduce their present nutrition labeling panels into the

simplest formats feasible in order to boost their usage and encourage better food

choices and eating habits. Economic expansion and industrialization increase food

options in markets, changing food ecosystems in many countries. In conclusion, the

program's goals should first benefit consumers and the food industry by ensuring the

utilization of healthy foods on the market and increasing product sales. In the long run,

the information offered by the FOP nutrition labeling panel is projected to act as a

nutrition education tool for modifying customers' eating habits, particularly in terms of

choice for undesired nutrients.

Based on this article that has an association with our study that food labels today are

getting complex and hard to read for consumers that have little knowledge on food

labelling and in this way it affects the outcome of consumers on their food choices. In

conclusion food labelling is the communication tool that guides consumers choices for

their health and it should be consumer friendly for the reason of guaranteeing the

benefits of consumers since in the long run the health and healthy food choices of

consumers are the priority to prevent health risks.

 The article entitled, “Understanding Food Label”, the content on food labels is

designed to assist people to become more knowledgeable about their food choices. The

front, back, and sides of a package are loaded with information to tell the consumers

about the contents of the item and to give assistance in selecting better choices of food

products. However, all of the statistics, percentages, and often complicated-sounding

substances can lead to more confusion than clarity. This is the first piece of a product

label that consumers view, and it can impact their purchasing decision within seconds.

As a result, it has become a battlefield between public health activists and food

corporations. Methodologies such as self-reporting and focus groups have been used to

assess consumers' knowledge and application of the FOP nutrition labeling panel in

their food purchase decisions. Observational studies calculated the influence of the

FOP nutrition labeling panel on customer choices. Indicators such as increased

qualifying product sales and modified and newly produced goods on the market were

used to assess the impact of FOP nutrition labeling across sectors. Furthermore,

national food consumption and national nutrition questionnaires will be used to assess

the influence of FOP nutrition labeling on nutrient intake and health consequences

(Harvard T.H. Chan, 2021).

This article that has a connection on our study on account of indicates that the

impact of situating of FOP nutrition labelling on every product is helpful for consumers

that have no time to read and search on every nutrition label on products in such a way

that can ease their purchasing decisions of healthy food choices.

 In the article entitled “Influence of Nutrition Labeling On Food Portion Size

Consumption” Nutrition labeling is an essential strategy for persuading consumers to

choose better food choices. The goal of this review was to see if manipulating nutrition

labeling data might alter food portion size consumption. The availability of particularly

tempting foods branded "low fat" or "low calorie" may encourage their excessive usage.

(McCann et., al. 2013).

According to this article that relates with our study, food labels have a negative effect

that impacts the consumer when it comes to marketing false information that affects

consumers' healthy food choices that encourage customers to purchase packaged

goods that are not healthy at all, However manipulating and altering the food labels can

still help the customers to purchase much better goods than others that will help their

food choices by persuading in a unique way.

Moreover, the article of Miller and Cassady (2015) entitled “The effects of nutrition

knowledge on food label use”, indicates that nutrition knowledge may be significant for

food choice in other ways, such as having direct effects on food choice in the absence

of food label information, or by influencing attitudes or beliefs. Furthermore, the usage

of product labels may act as a mediator of the relationship between nutrition knowledge

and food choices. Initial levels of dietary knowledge, on the other hand, are crucial.

Previous research revealed that baseline levels of knowledge were more predictive of

weight reduction among obese, low-income parents than intervention-induced gains in

knowledge. Some consumers are uninterested in consuming nutritious foods or reading

food labels. Motivation may be an essential aspect in influencing consumers to consider

the value of nutrition in food choices.

According to this article, the impact of food labels are effective on food choices of

consumers. Although there is a crucial part of every consumer that affects greatly for

the reason that some consumers have low income budgets, the impact of food labels

are significant by being the bridge of food choices and nutrition knowledge of a

consumer.

The article of Krans (2014) entitled “How Manufacturers Use Food Labels to Deceive

Grocery Shoppers” stated that because customers are more health-conscious than

ever, some food producers utilize misleading language to persuade them to buy heavily

processed and harmful products. Food labeling standards are complicated, making it

difficult for customers to grasp them. Indeed, research suggests that including health

claims on front labels leads to customers believing a product is healthier than a product

that does not have health claims, influencing consumer food choices. Manufacturers'

usage of these labels is frequently deceptive. They frequently make health claims that

are deceptive, if not outright fraudulent.

Based on this article that correlates our study, Food labels have a significant impact

that can deceive consumers manipulating the food labels on some products that affects

the food choices of a consumer that makes them believe that is healthy but it is not. In

conclusion, even though food labels are the median communication consumers should
still read and search for a better product and they should not believe instantly after

seeing a product that claims false health claims.

In the article entitled “Food Marketing and Labeling” stated that people are

dependent on food labels to find out what food includes, how nutritious it is, and how it

was made. Customers may search for items branded "organic," "no trans fats," or

"antibiotic-free," or they may be interested in animal welfare standards or fair labor

practices. Labeling a product to express these traits is a key component of selling it.

However, most of the information found on food packaging is unregulated, impossible to

verify, and false. Consumers regularly seek items labeled "natural," for example, and

mistakenly assume that the word indicates no pesticides or genetically altered

organisms were used in production. Rather than reading the Nutrition Facts panel,

shoppers usually rely on front-of-package statements (Driver, 2016).

In this article that relates to our study, The impact of food labels are wide and

complex. Even so, by reading the information that producers given on a packaged

goods consumers can help and inform them that it would help and guide their food

choices because even a little detail of information that indicated in a product would

affect greatly on the food choices of a consumer.

According to article of van der Merwe et., al. (2011) entitled “Food choice: student

consumers’ decision-making process regarding food products with limited label

information”, in the lack of comprehensive label information on which to base food

choice, student consumers with a label concern were more likely to use label

information techniques. Those that were uninterested in labels used alternate tactics to
make judgments, such as freshness and product expertise, the basis of product type,

and personal details. Student customers should be encouraged to make healthier food

choices by offering complete food labeled information on cafeteria items and by giving

students the expertise to appropriately interpret food label information through

educational practices.

In relation to our study in this article decision-making process regarding food

products student consumers were more likely to use food label information to have

healthier food choices.

In the article of Argumedo, Gomez, and Mora (2018), entitled “College Students and

Eating Habits”, states that Campus colleges and dining halls should recognize their

essential role in supporting healthy food choices and be the first topics to be engaged in

establishing a healthy atmosphere for students. Effective policies and management

solutions to combat malnutrition (obesity, anorexia, micro-deficiency) cannot be

produced unless they begin to comprehend the causes behind college students' bad

eating behaviors.

In relation to our study in this article the food choices of consumers affected by

Campus colleges and dining halls for being the essential role in supporting their better

food choices. Effective policies, atmosphere and management solutions should help the

consumers for their food choices.

 In the article entitled “Parents have big impact in reducing weight”, states that

according to a U.S. health and wellness firm, insurance carriers and employer groups

report that obesity currently affects 17% of all U.S. children and adolescents, which is

treble the incidence from only one generation before. Parents may make a significant

difference by assisting their children in developing healthy habits. When parents are

mindful and act quickly, several of the risk factors that contribute to childhood obesity

may be controlled. Parents may influence their children in aspects such as healthy

eating choices, limiting fast food, boosting physical activity, and decreasing sedentary

behaviors such as watching TV or playing video games (Examiner, 2012).

In relation to our study in this article indicates that parents that have nutrition
knowledge can affect the impact of food choices of their child.