FOP Nutrition Label in Campus Cafeteria

Impact of a Front-of-pack Nutrition Label on the Nutritional Quality of Purchases in Campus Cafeteria

This study evaluates the impact of the introduction of a front-of-pack nutrition label on foods and beverages sold in a campus cafeteria in France on the nutritional quality of purchases.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Food Labelling
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Front-of-pack labelling Nutri-Score

Detailed Description

The introduction of front-of-package nutrition labelling is thought to help consumers making healthier food choices at the point-of-purchase.

Recently, the French government has selected the Nutri-Score as single front-of-pack nutrition label.

Evaluations of the Nutri-Score suggest it is in helping consumers making healthier choices. However, its impact in vulnerable populations has not yet been tested. Students are thought to be a vulnerable population due to their limited resources and to their unhealthy food choices.

The objective of the present study is to investigate the impact of the introduction of the Nutri-Score in campus cafeterias on the nutritional quality of food purchases. The intervention is conducted during several months, with a control period without front-of-pack nutrition labelling at the beginning of the university year.

Data on purchases is collected regularly through receipts, and the nutritional quality of purchases is evaluated over time between the intervention situation and the control situation.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 119219
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Nice, France
    • CROUS Nice - Toulon

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• All subjects purchasing foods or beverages in the selected campus cafeteria

Exclusion Criteria:

• None No individual data is collected. Only purchases data is collected (cash register sales data)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Front-of-pack labelling Nutri-Score; Introduction of the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition label on every food and beverage in the campus cafeteria after a control period without food labelling. The implementation of the label is accompanied by a communication campaign towards students in the form of posters and leaflets.	Behavioral: Front-of-pack labelling Nutri-Score; Introduction of the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition label on shelf display tags for every food and beverage sold in the cafeteria

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall nutritional quality of purchases	Overall nutritional quality of purchases evaluated using the Food Standard Agency nutrient profiling system	Every 15 days, up to 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Energy content of purchases	Energy content of the purchases (kcal/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months
Saturated fat content of purchases	Saturated fat content of the purchases (g/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months
Sugar content of purchases	Sugar content of the purchases (g/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months
Sodium content of purchases	Sodium content of the purchases (g/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months
Fiber content of purchases	Fiber content of the purchases (g/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months
Protein content of purchases	Protein content of the purchases (g/100g)	Every 15 days, up to 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Paris 13

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 8, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 8, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): June 8, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 3, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 7, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 8, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 13, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 12, 2019
• Last Verified: June 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: CROUS_NICE2C

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No