24. KATHY ROMSES ♀
Information acquired: 2025
KATHY ROMSES is an academic who published a paper in 2001 entitled Nutrition information on food package labels : consumer use in grocery stores and input on education. KATHY ROMSES published this work as part of a team: Romses, Kathy. Here is a description of this work: This study investigates consumers' use of nutrition information on food package labels in a purchase decision context, obtains consumers' input on the types of education assistance they want to help them to use this information, who they believe should be providing this assistance, and their suggested methods for distributing or providing this assistance. Approximately 7% of 2,316 consumers observed choosing foods from two large grocery stores in the Greater Vancouver area were observed using the nutrition information on food package labels. Eighty-seven consumers who were using this information were interviewed in the store and 38 of these consumers were further interviewed by telephone. In-store participants shared their views on the nutrition information used to help with their purchase decision, the reasons for use, and.