'Low-Content' Nutritional Claims on Packaged Goods Misleading for Consumers (VIDEO)

Elsevier Health Sciences

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No fat, no sugar, no salt? What does it mean? The lack of consistency about the meaning of nutritional claims impacts people's ability to make healthy choices, according to a new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Duke-UNC USDA Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research (BECR)

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