‘Buying salad is a lot more expensive than going to McDonalds’: Young adults’ views about what influences their food choices

Dietary intake of fruits and vegetables is widely known to be beneficial to health, however, many of us fail to meet the daily dietary requirements. Current research postulates that a colorful meal is synonymous to a healthy, tasty choice. In this study by König et al. (2021), the authors investigate how the relationship between ‘colorful’ […]

The dietary intake of whole grains in children remains insufficient, leading to negative health impacts. Intervention research is focusing on ‘nudging’ as a method to alter food choices by subconsciously modulating behavior. In this between-subjects study by van Kleef et al. (2014), the authors investigated if the shape of bread rolls can alter children’s bread […]