Understanding Food Choices

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

756

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

December 2, 2020

Primary Completion Date

December 14, 2020

Study Completion Date

December 14, 2020

Conditions
Diet Quality
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Explicit Tax

"To impose an explicit tax on food and beverage items that are eligible for red stop-sign food logos (explained in Intervention 2) as less healthy foods. Explicit tax shows pre-tax prices and a label indicating that the price includes a corresponding tax on the less healthy products.~Food and Beverages: we will impose a 20% tax on sales price of the food items"

BEHAVIORAL

Food Labels (with the summary of healthiness of shopping baskets & targets)

"To provide the green circle 'healthy choice' food label to items with Nutri-Score A and B, the amber circle 'in between healthy and unhealthy choice' food label to items with Nutri-Score C, and the red stop-sign 'less healthy choice' food label to items with Nutri-Score D and E.~In the presence of food labels,~* Video: subjects will watch a video briefly explaining the food labels on the store.~* My Cart Summary: subjects will be provided a live visual indicator of the healthiness of shoppers' current basket with the recommended healthy baskets goals."

BEHAVIORAL

Ordering

To order food items by Nutri-Score (high to low).

BEHAVIORAL

Within-Group Substitution

To provide substitutes within corresponding food categories that are better than the items that subjects chose in terms of Nutri-Score based on the similarities of price, primary ingredients, flavor, and other characteristics.

Trial Locations (1)

169857

Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National University of Singapore

OTHER

lead

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

OTHER

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