Do Food Packaging Health Claims Depict Healthiness or Mislead Patients?
We cannot recommend that patients rely on food packaging health claims to identify healthy or unhealthy foods. Instead, we encourage physicians to advise patients to choose foods from known healthy categories and ignore front-of-package health claims.
Authors
- S Venkatesh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2699-417X)
- Joshua Steinberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6523-3479)
- Christopher Ryan
Institutions
- Binghamton University (US)
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (US)
- United Health Services (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PRiMER
- Published
- 2025-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22454/primer.2025.586640
- Primary Topic
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- State University of New York
- Binghamton University