Nanyang Technological University, 52 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
Nanyang Technological University, 52 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 Aug;46:101348. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101348. Epub 2022 Apr 4.
Is this food healthy? Understanding how individuals evaluate food healthiness is important because their evaluation can affect their food choices and consumption quantities, potentially leading to obesity and other health problems. However, individuals often find it difficult to process the health information to evaluate food healthiness, so they rely on their intuition or lay beliefs to make the judgment. This article reviews recent empirical findings to highlight how individuals use lay beliefs based on sensory cues (e.g., visual, taste) and cognitive cues (e.g., nutrition label, price) to infer food healthiness and how this perception of food healthiness affects their food consumption. We conclude by discussing possible future opportunities in lay beliefs and food perception.
这种食物健康吗？了解个体如何评估食物的健康程度很重要，因为他们的评估可能会影响他们的食物选择和食用量，从而导致肥胖和其他健康问题。然而，个体通常很难处理健康信息来评估食物的健康程度，因此他们依靠直觉或常识来做出判断。本文回顾了最近的实证研究结果，强调了个体如何利用基于感官线索（例如，视觉、味觉）和认知线索（例如，营养标签、价格）的常识来推断食物的健康程度，以及这种对食物健康程度的感知如何影响他们的食物消费。最后，我们讨论了常识和食物感知方面可能存在的未来机会。
