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Quick Bites: Let the Food Label Be Your Guide Through the Grocery Store Jungle
Bethany Brown. Not indexed, 2015-04-23
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
Nutrition Facts labels help cut through confusing grocery-store marketing and make it easier to choose foods that fit your health goals and budget. This resource explains how to read key parts of the label—serving size, calories, and % Daily Value—and how to compare products by focusing on the nutrients that matter most to you. It also highlights which nutrients to limit or get more of for common concerns like weight, heart health, or diabetes.
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Brown, B. (2015). Quick Bites: Let the Food Label Be Your Guide Through the Grocery Store Jungle. https://doi.org/10.7290/utiapub/w327a
Vancouver
Brown B. Quick Bites: Let the Food Label Be Your Guide Through the Grocery Store Jungle. 2015. doi:10.7290/utiapub/w327a.
BibTeX
@article{brown2015-18c94191,
author = {Brown, Bethany},
title = {{Quick Bites: Let the Food Label Be Your Guide Through the Grocery Store Jungle}},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.7290/utiapub/w327a},
url = {https://doi.org/10.7290/utiapub/w327a}
}
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Key findings
- Nutrition Facts labels help cut through confusing grocery-store marketing and make it easier to choose foods that fit your health goals and budget.
- This resource explains how to read key parts of the label—serving size, calories, and % Daily Value—and how to compare products by focusing on the nutrients that matter most to you.
- It also highlights which nutrients to limit or get more of for common concerns like weight, heart health, or diabetes.
Why it matters
This resource explains how to read Nutrition Facts labels to make healthier food choices. It has no relevance to treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Study details
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 24/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, impact for its field and year, senior author's track record and institution's track record, so those were left out: it earned 20 of the 83 points we could judge it on, which is 24 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Not indexed) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 1 / 5 | 2015 — within 20 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | 0 / 7 | Cited 0 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10) |
| Citations per year | 0 / 5 | 0.0 citations a year over 13 year(s) since 2015 |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
| Cited by studies here | 0 / 6 | No other study in this library cites it |
| Still being cited | 0 / 4 | Cited 0 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex) |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | OpenAlex's profile for last-listed author Bethany Brown holds only 1 work(s), too few to judge a track record — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | 0 / 3 | OpenAlex lists 0 institution(s) in 0 countries — scores zero (affiliation lists can be incomplete) |
| Indexed in PubMed | 1 / 2 | Not in PubMed, but has a DOI |
| Free to read | 0 / 2 | Behind a paywall — scores zero |
| Points | 20 / 83 | Scored on 16 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 20 of the 83 points we could judge it on is 24 out of 100. |
| Total | 24 / 100 | — |
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