Black Ellen A
Food Drug Law J. 2014;69(4):531-54, i.
The Affordable Care Act requires certain restaurants to provide nutritional information on their menus and menu boards, which is referred to as menu labeling. Menu labeling presupposes that providing consumers with the nutritional information about their food will cause them to reconsider their food choices by picking healthier food options over less healthy options, thereby reducing the nation's high obesity rate. However, several studies have shown that consumers do not make healthier food choices even when armed with menu labeling. The issue then becomes whether menu labeling provides a correlative benefit to consumers or whether there are unintended consequences that ultimately harm consumers.
《平价医疗法案》要求某些餐厅在其菜单和点餐牌上提供营养信息，这被称为菜单标识。菜单标识的前提是，向消费者提供其食物的营养信息会促使他们重新考虑食物选择，选择更健康的食物选项而非不太健康的选项，从而降低该国较高的肥胖率。然而，多项研究表明，即使有菜单标识，消费者也不会做出更健康的食物选择。那么问题就变成了菜单标识是否能给消费者带来相应的益处，或者是否存在最终会伤害消费者的意外后果。
