Exploring the moderating effect of children's nutritional knowledge on the relationship between product evaluations and food choice

Liudmila Tarabashkina, Pascale Quester and Roberta Crouch

Social Science & Medicine, 2016, vol. 149, issue C, 145-152

Abstract: Although the last decade has seen multiple attempts to increase consumers' nutritional knowledge in expectation that this will result in healthier diets, extant knowledge about the influence of nutritional knowledge on children's food choices remains scarce due to mixed empirical evidence and limited inquiry into the role of product evaluations on the consumption of less healthy foods. Furthermore, no research has examined whether nutritional knowledge can effectively moderate the relationship between product evaluations and food consumption, leaving a gap in our knowledge about potentially effective intervention strategies to curb childhood obesity.

Keywords: Children; Nutritional knowledge; Product evaluations; Consumption of less healthy foods; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.046

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