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The design of nutrition labels

Authors: Lages, Cátia Cecília Delgado;

The design of nutrition labels

Abstract

O principal objectivo desta dissertação consistia em expor o processo envolvido no design de um rótulo nutricional assim como desenvolver o seu próprio design. O aumento das taxas de excesso de peso e de obesidade são uma das grandes preocupações das organizações de saúde e dos governos. De forma a combater esta epidemia, a Comissão Europeia delineou o documento Strategy for Europe on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity related to health issues que determina, entre outras decisões, que a provisão de informação nutricional aos consumidores é um factor crítico para influenciar a escolha de alimentos mais saudáveis. Dado que o hábito de consumir refeições fora de casa também está relacionado com o aumento das taxas de excesso de peso e de obesidade, a provisão de informação nutricional em restaurantes (ou estabelecimentos de restauração colectiva) pode orientar os consumidores na escolha das suas refeições. O processo de desenhar um rótulo nutricional para incluir no menu de restaurantes foi divido em duas partes. A primeira parte envolveu pesquisa nas áreas de comunicação, infografia e do estado da arte da rotulagem nutricional. Na segunda parte, e com base na informação reunida e análise de casos de estudo, foi determinado o tipo de informação a incluir no rótulo e os critérios nutricionais em que se fundamentaram. Incluiu também as decisões relativas ao design do modelo de rótulo nutricional para menus, que será gerado digitalmente. Como trabalho futuro foi apontada a necessidade de testar o rótulo nutricional no mercado e juntos dos consumidores e também a de desenvolvimento de uma solução interactiva para a provisão de orientação nutricional personalizada.

The main objective of this dissertation was to expose the process involved in the design and the actual design of a nutrition label for restaurant’s menus. The increasing overweight and obesity rates are a major concern for health organizations and governments. In order to fight this epidemic, the Commission of the European Communities outlined a Strategy for Europe on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity related to health issues determining, among others, that providing nutritional information to consumers is a critical factor that may influence healthier food choices. Since the habit of eating out-of-home is related to the increasing overweight and obesity rates as well, the disclosure of nutritional information in restaurants (or mass caterers in general) can provide guidance to consumers while choosing their food. The process of designing a nutrition label for restaurant’s menu was divided in to parts. The first part addressed research on communication, infographics and on the state-of-the-art of nutrition labels. The second part, and supported in the collected information and case studies’ analysis, was related with determining the type of information to include in the label and the nutritional criteria in which it was going to be based. It also included the actual design decisions related to the model of a nutrition label for restaurants’ menus, to be software generated. As future work it was pointed the necessity of testing it within the market and consumers and to develop an interactive solution for providing customized nutritional guidance.

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Indústrias criativas, Design, Restaurants, Nutrition labelling, Restaurantes, Rotulagem nutricional, Creative industries, Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

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