Use and understanding of the nutrition information panel of pre-packaged foods in a sample of Mexican consumers Uso y comprensión del etiquetado nutrimental posterior de los alimentos pre-empaquetados en una muestra de consumidores mexicanos

• Main Authors: Vanessa De la Cruz-Góngora (Author), Salvador Villalpando (Author), Guadalupe Rodríguez-Oliveros (Author), Marcia Castillo-García (Author), Verónica Mundo-Rosas (Author), Sergio Meneses-Navarro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the use and understanding of the Nutritional information Panel (NIP) of pre-packaged foods by Mexican consumers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire and an understanding test for NIP were applied to adult consumers in supermarkets of six cities in the Northern, Central, and S...