Cochrane · systematic review · CD009315

Nutritional labelling for healthier food or non‐alcoholic drink purchasing and consumption

Crockett, RA, King, SE, Marteau, TM, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2018 · Cochrane Library

Public HealthAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
6
current version
GRADE rated
6
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 3 · 50%Low 3 · 50%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Questions and results

Summary of findings table

Population: university students/staff and general consumers
6 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Food purchased from vending machines
no estimate extracted1 study · 1 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision
Food purchased from a grocery store
no estimate extracted1 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, indirectness
Food purchased in restaurants (labels on menus)
no estimate extracted3 studies · 1877 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias
Food consumed in laboratory settings (labels on menus or labels placed on a range of food options)
no estimate extracted8 studies · 1705 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness
Food consumed in laboratory settings (single snack food or drink option)
no estimate extracted6 studies · 732 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, indirectness
Potential harms (high‐energy snack foods consumed with misleading low fat/energy labels in laboratory settings)
no estimate extracted5 studies · 831 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, indirectness