Significant changes in lifestyles throughout Asia including reduced physical activity and an increased incidence of eating out, has meant that the health challenges facing children and their parents/carers in Asian countries have changed markedly over the last few decades.

Understanding the factors which affect food choice are important as governments grapple with rising levels of overweight and obesity and search for effective ways to get consumers to change their behaviour and choose healthier diets.

To gain a better understanding of how consumers in Asia choose foods and the ways in which they use nutrition information on food labels, AFIC undertook ‘Research on Nutrition Labeling Study’ in Shanghai and Thailand.

Do Shoppers Use Nutrition Information on Labels? And What Type of Label Is Best Understood? To learn more about the findings from research on Nutrition Labeling study, please click here.