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Labelling
Does front-of-pack labelling change what people buy?
Systematic reviews find real but small effects on purchasing — and larger effects on what manufacturers reformulate.
Nutrition labels, and whether anyone acts on them
Europe has spent two decades arguing about how to label food. The research on whether labels change behaviour is more equivocal than either side admits.
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Measurement
Why you cannot estimate a portion
Systematic reviews of portion-size estimation find errors large enough to swamp most dietary interventions.
Technology
Can a camera do it better?
Image-based dietary assessment has been validated against reference methods. It is imperfect and better than memory.
Regulation
What a health claim legally means
EU health claims are regulated and narrow. What surrounds them on the packet is not.
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