Understanding of adolescents about nutritional information and its forms of presentation on food labels

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro Souza, Rosa Beatriz
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Queiroz Valente, Érica, Monteiro Silva, Fernanda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Rasbran
• Texto Completo: https://rasbran.com.br/rasbran/article/view/1698
• topic: Rotulagem Nutricional Educação Nutricional Estudantes Alimentação Saudável

Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of adolescents in a public school on the ways of presenting nutritional information on food labels. Methods: is an exploratory research, descriptive study based on the use of a questionnaire relevant to socioeconomic information and the understanding of food labels by adolescents from a public school, aged 12 to 18 years, of both sexes applied in 241 students from the seventh grade to the third year of high school. Results: The results found in this population were: 64% (n = 154) do not read the labels, however, 62% (n = 149) understand the nutritional information. In addition, 42.7% (n = 103) of students point out the small print as the main difficulty in understanding the labels, 25.52% (n = 85) consider nutritional quality as the most important at the time of purchase and 39, 8% (n = 96) more easily understand the traditional vertical model. Conclusion: Most adolescents are not in the habit of reading the label, in addition to experiencing difficulty in reading and interpreting the labels and nutritional information. Regarding presentation models of nutritional information, the linear model was evaluated as the most difficult to understand and the frontal models of traffic light and warning in triangles presented some difficulty in understanding. In this sense, it is necessary that the actions of food and nutrition education in schools address more about food labeling.