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Attitudes and Understanding of Plant Sterol Claims on Food Labels

NCT01932840 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1017

Last updated 2013-08-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Daily consumption of plant sterols have been demonstrated to lower blood cholesterol. The Canadian government has recently allowed plant sterols to be added to certain foods and has also approved a disease risk reduction claim to be allowed on products containing plant sterols. However, it is unknown how Canadian consumers respond to plant sterol claims.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and understanding of different types of plant sterol claims on food labels

Conditions

  • General Population
  • Consumer Research

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mock package questionnaire

Within a online questionnaire we exposed participants randomly to 4 mock margarine packages differing only by the claim it carried and asked participants to answer several questions on attitudes and understanding after each mock package.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Advance Foods and Materials Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary R L'Abbé, PhD · University of Toronto

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
69 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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