Abstract
\nBackground: Procedural nutrition knowledge is knowledge of how to eat a healthy diet. This type of knowledge potentially plays an important role in dietary behaviour. Previous studies of consumers’ nutrition knowledge did not systematically assess procedural nutrition knowledge. Thus, we administered a survey of procedural nutrition knowledge to Swiss consumers to assess the prevalence of misconceptions about healthy eating. Methods: We developed 13 procedural nutrition knowledge items. Nine items were based on qualitative consumer interviews and four items were derived from expert guidelines. The items had a true\/false format. We administered the items to a random population sample in a written postal survey (n = 1,043). The survey also assessed the consumers’ self-reported food consumption. For each respondent, we computed the number of correctly answered knowledge items and we correlated this number with food consumption frequencies. Results: The procedural nutrition knowledge items received between 3% and 38% incorrect answers. Individuals with a higher number of correctly answered items consumed more vegetables (r = 0.29). Higher knowledge was associated with the female gender, younger age, higher education, nutrition-related qualifications and not being on a diet (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Our findings indicate that misconceptions exist in the general population about healthy eating. These misconceptions are associated with a decreased consumption of foods usually defined as healthy. Some population sub-groups seem particularly susceptible to holding such misconceptions. The implications for nutrition education, particularly concerning the role of fruit and vegetable consumption as well as the food pyramid are discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","mots_cles":[],"class_list":["post-40097","resume","type-resume","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"adresse":"Consumer Behavior, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.","annee":"2010","mois":"9","numero":"","page":"","auteurs":[{"ID":40096,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 02:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 01:08:42","post_content":"","post_title":"Dickson-spillmann","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dickson-spillmann","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 02:08:42","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 01:08:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/dickson-spillmann\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5447,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 17:27:56","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 16:27:56","post_content":"","post_title":"Michael Siegrist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"michael-siegrist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 17:27:56","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 16:27:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/michael-siegrist\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"sources":[{"ID":31497,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 23:45:54","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:45:54","post_content":"","post_title":"J HUM NUTR DIET","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"j-hum-nutr-diet-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 23:45:54","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:45:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/source\/j-hum-nutr-diet-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"source","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n