Septia Irawan Anggi, Shahin Balqees, Wangeshi Njuguna Diana, Nellamkuzhi Noel Johny, Thiện Bùi Quốc, Mahrouseh Nour, Varga Orsolya
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
Doctoral School of Health Sciences, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
Front Nutr. 2022 Apr 25;9:846730. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.846730. eCollection 2022.
In recent years, concerted political efforts have been made at the national and European Union (EU) level to promote the consumption of healthy foods. The European Commission (EC) expressed the need for a harmonized and mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labeling (FOPL) system at the EU level. The EC will adopt the proposal by the end of 2022. Our research work aims to understand the public discourse on FOPL in the EU Twitter, by analyzing tweet content, sentiment, and mapping network characteristics. Tweet search and data collection were performed using the Twitter application programming interface (API), with no time or language restrictions. The content was coded with the QRS Nvivo software package and analyzed thematically. Automatic sentiment analysis was performed with QSR Nvivo, and network analysis was performed with Gephi 0.9.2. A total of 4,073 tweets were posted, mostly from the UK, Spain, and France. Themes that have emerged from the discussion on Twitter include the types of food labeling, food industry, healthy vs. unhealthy foods in the context of food labeling, EU regulation, political conflicts, and science and education. Nutri-Score dominated the discussion on Twitter. General topics were perceived negatively by Twitter users with more positive sentiments toward the food industry, while negative sentiments were observed toward the discourse of political conflicts. The network analysis showed that a centralized communication was hardly existed between countries. Our results reveal that the discussion of FOPL on Twitter is limited to a very limited group of people, and it seems necessary to inform a wide range of consumers about existing and upcoming FOPL schemes. Educational programs should empower consumers to understand what a healthy diet is and how it relates to FOPL, regardless of the existing labeling system.
近年来，国家和欧盟层面已做出协同一致的政治努力来促进健康食品的消费。欧盟委员会表示需要在欧盟层面建立一个统一且强制性的包装正面营养标签（FOPL）系统。欧盟委员会将于2022年底通过该提案。我们的研究工作旨在通过分析推文内容、情感倾向并绘制网络特征，来了解欧盟推特上关于FOPL的公众话语。使用推特应用程序编程接口（API）进行推文搜索和数据收集，没有时间或语言限制。内容使用QRS Nvivo软件包进行编码并进行主题分析。使用QSR Nvivo进行自动情感分析，使用Gephi 0.9.2进行网络分析。总共发布了4073条推文，大部分来自英国、西班牙和法国。推特讨论中出现的主题包括食品标签类型、食品行业、食品标签背景下的健康食品与不健康食品、欧盟法规、政治冲突以及科学与教育。Nutri-Score主导了推特上的讨论。推特用户对一般主题持负面看法，对食品行业的情感较为积极，而对政治冲突的话语则持负面态度。网络分析表明，各国之间几乎不存在集中式沟通。我们的结果表明，推特上关于FOPL的讨论仅限于非常有限的一群人，似乎有必要让广大消费者了解现有的和即将推出的FOPL计划。教育项目应使消费者有能力理解健康饮食是什么以及它与FOPL的关系，无论现有的标签系统如何。
