Indicated more likely to trust the packaging of foods (HealthDay)

(Wednesday, June 8, HealthDay News) - indicated is more likely than non-indicated to be misled by food names, a new study said.

For example, indicated rated food with names such as "salad" as being more healthy than identical products with names like "pasta", though not indicated without such distinctions.

Indicated also believed that labeled candy "fruit chew" was healthier than candy even when he was labelled "candy chew" and most sweets eaten when it was called fruit chews, said researchers at the University of South Carolina.

"The fact that perceptions of the safety people vary with the name of the food is amazing." What is interesting is that indicated, who try to eat health and care about what they eat, fell into these "naming Office trap" more that it is not indicated who does really care about healthy eating, "author of the study Caglar Irmak, an assistant professor of marketing, said in a press release from the University."

The findings of the study of people more than 520 suggest indicated rely on food names to identify the so-called healthy, explained Irmak. Instead, indicated need to focus on the reading of nutritional food products information and menus of the restaurants.

"These results provide indicated break.". The study indicated shows based their decisions to food on the name of the food instead of the ingredients of the element. As a result, they can eat more of their goals plans prescribe "Irmak said."

The study appears in the issue of the journal of research consumer August.

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