Adopting Sustainable Dietary Patterns: Effects of Food Labeling, Food Choices, and Eating Behaviors (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 799
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable dietary patterns; decreased risk of disease; effects of regulation and policy on dietary choices; consumer insights
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Dear Colleagues,
The four domains of sustainability are health, the environment, sociocultural factors, and economics. Food systems are undergoing a renaissance and re-positioning their value as proponents of sustainable dietary patterns. Many of these efforts focus on providing consumers with the information required to make sustainable food choices. These domains increasingly underpin the strategic development of food policies and dietary guidelines. Industry stakeholders are incorporating measures of sustainability into supply chain and innovation pipelines so that they can be leveraged as salient factors of differentiation to consumers. At the same time, regulatory and policy efforts aim to facilitate sustainable food systems and mitigate the risks of consumers being misled by information lacking scientific rigor and substantiation.
This Special Issue will examine the consumer–food interface within the context of sustainable dietary patterns. Studies will focus on labeling and other tools that can affect dietary choice and/or eating behaviors that enhance one or more domains of sustainable diets. Random clinical trials, narrative reviews, systematic reviews with and without meta-analyses, and commentaries are welcomed as submissions for this issue. Relevant topics include the modeling effects of labeling strategies on the sustainability metrics of dietary patterns; changes in the retail positioning of food categories over time; behavioral strategies that affect dietary patterns; the analysis of regulatory and policy tools; and consumer insights. However, other relevant topics that provide new and innovative data, discussion, and/or highlight challenges are also welcome.
Dr. Christopher P. F. Marinangeli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- labeling
- sustainability
- consumer behavior
- nutrition
- health
- environment
- sociocultural
- economics
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