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A new study reveals an information gap in online grocery shopping: Crucial nutrition and allergen details—required on food packaging in stores—are often missing on grocery websites.

Consumers have long relied on food packaging in brick-and-mortar stores for key nutrition labeling. However, research from Tufts University and New York University (NYU) reveals that as more Americans turn to online grocery shopping, this level of transparency is increasingly absent.

“When you or I walk into a grocery store, we can reasonably expect to find certain information on most food packaging. That’s not always the case when shopping online,” Sean Cash, Bergstrom Foundation professor in global nutrition at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, told The Epoch Times.

The absence of this critical information poses risks to consumer health, said Cash, the senior author of the study published on Oct. 17 in Public Health Nutrition. As online grocery shopping grows in both volume and importance, closing the food labeling information gap could be crucial.

Incomplete Food Labelings

The researchers analyzed 60 food products across 10 major online grocery platforms and found that only 35.1 percent of products provided essential information, such as nutrition facts, ingredient lists, and allergen warnings, in an accessible manner. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires food manufacturers to display these details on packaging, online platforms are not obligated to do the same. […]

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