Do you still buy uncomfortable warning signs on junk drinks?

[China Packaging News] Australian researchers have found that putting uncomfortable pictures on unhealthy beverage packaging, accompanied by warning text, can effectively suppress the desire of young people to buy.

British "Times" Web site reported on the 25th, Deakin University health expert Anna Peters and colleagues recruited 1000 Australians to participate in an online survey. These people are 18 to 35 years old, with different socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels.

The researchers let these people imagine walking into a store, or a cafe, or going to a vending machine to prepare a drink, show them 15 kinds of beverages, including water, sugar-free beverages and sugar-containing beverages, let them choose one Either one or none.

Researchers found that when there are no clear health warnings or patterns in the packaging patterns of sucrose-containing beverages, 64% of the respondents would choose to purchase sucrose-containing beverages instead of sucrose-free beverages and water; When the sugar content is not visualized in grams, this ratio drops to 46% ; when the sugary beverage package is attached with a photo of tooth decay, it is printed with " Drinking added sucrose beverage can cause obesity, type II diabetes " Tooth decay " warning, 28% of people are willing to choose sugary drinks.

When attending the European Obesity Conference in Vienna, Austria, Peters said: " This (warning pictures and text) has brought more changes than I expected. "

She believes that since sugary beverages are the largest source of sugar intake in the diet, the world should warn the health hazards of excessive sugar intake on sugary beverage packaging.