he Special Issue “Food Choice and Nutrition” deals with the relationship between the food choices of different population groups or consumer segments and its impact on the nutritional status, improvement of dietary quality, food and nutrition-related behaviour, food preferences, taste education, sensory characteristics of foods and their role in consumer choice, etc. It addresses why people make certain food choices when they choose some foods instead of others, the influence of those around them on their choices, and the aspect of where foods are eaten or chosen.This Special Issue is a comprehensive work that covers a multi-disciplinary array of studies from classic public health and nutritional epidemiology to applied food technology, and covers different population groups throughout their lifespan, from pregnant women, children, young adults, adults to older people.
Two reviews are included in this Special Issue. The first provides a rapid review of recent systematic reviews of food choice and nutrition, listing the most common relevant indicators, and the key message that combining interventions seems to be the most efficient way to achieve behaviour change. The second provides an update on “nudging” interventions, aimed specifically at improving cardiovascular health, and highlights the fact that that traffic light-style labels, reducing portion sizes and dishware size in foodservice, and designing healthier meals are a promising methods of intervention.
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/2/502