Conway Rana, Denning Tiffany, Steptoe Andrew, Llewellyn Clare
Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK.
Public Health Nutr. 2025 Aug 13;28(1):e138. doi: 10.1017/S1368980025100827.
To assess what is known about how the labelling of commercial infant food impacts parents' beliefs about a product's sugar content and their related purchasing and feeding decisions.
Mixed methods scoping review. Peer-reviewed studies were identified from six electronic databases, and grey literature was identified via Google, relevant websites, government reports and by contacting organisations. Searches were completed in May 2024 using a comprehensive search string incorporating keywords and indexed terms related to 'parents', 'beliefs', 'sugar' and 'baby food labels'.
Northern, Western and Southern Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
Parents and primary caregivers of children (≤ 37 months) or those specifically choosing commercial infant food for their children.
In total, 1123 records were screened, and seventeen were included for review, with all records published since 2015. Records reported on fifteen unique studies, including seven quantitative, seven qualitative and one mixed-methods study. Studies found that simply labelling products as suitable for babies elicited a trust that they were healthy, including not having a high sugar content. Interventions alerting parents to the sugar content of products were associated with less positive opinions or reduced intention to purchase. In eleven studies, parents described being drawn to products displaying labels such as 'no added sugar', which some perceived as meaning low sugar. In five studies, parents described sugar labelling as misleading, and/or they explicitly expressed a desire for clearer sugar labelling.
Parents find the current labelling of commercial infant food misleading and desire clearer labelling to support informed purchasing and feeding decisions.
评估关于商业婴儿食品标签如何影响父母对产品含糖量的看法以及他们相关的购买和喂养决策的已知情况。
混合方法范围综述。从六个电子数据库中识别同行评审研究，并通过谷歌、相关网站、政府报告以及联系组织来识别灰色文献。于2024年5月使用包含与“父母”“看法”“糖”和“婴儿食品标签”相关的关键词和索引词的综合搜索字符串完成搜索。
北欧、西欧和南欧、北美、澳大利亚和新西兰。
儿童（≤37个月）的父母和主要照料者，或那些专门为孩子选择商业婴儿食品的人。
总共筛选了1123条记录，其中17条被纳入综述，所有记录均自2015年以来发表。记录报道了15项独特的研究，包括7项定量研究、7项定性研究和1项混合方法研究。研究发现，仅仅将产品标记为适合婴儿会引发人们相信它们是健康的，包括含糖量不高。提醒父母注意产品含糖量的干预措施与不太积极的看法或购买意愿降低有关。在11项研究中，父母表示被带有“无添加糖”等标签的产品所吸引，有些人认为这意味着低糖。在5项研究中，父母将糖标签描述为具有误导性，和/或他们明确表示希望有更清晰的糖标签。
父母认为当前商业婴儿食品的标签具有误导性，并希望有更清晰的标签以支持明智的购买和喂养决策。
