NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 10, 2014, 3:01 PM
EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images Nearly 60% of American adults report that they take menu nutritional information into account when deciding what to order.
People are paying attention to nutrition information on menus, suggests new research from the Centers for Disease Control.
The federal body found that 57% of adults use menu nutritional info, like calorie counts, to decide what to eat. Women were more likely to use the information.
Restaurants that have at least 20 locations must post calorie counts on their menus, as per required by a 2010 federal law.
Earlier studies did not show buyers utilizing the menu information: In 2012, for example, one study said calorie counts wouldn’t influence people to order healthier foods. A 2013 study examining receipts from people who ate at McDonald’s found that regardless of whether diners had access to nutritional information, they still ate more than the recommended amount of calories.
The study’s authors said that the data could lead to better ways to communicate health information on menu labels. Educated diners would know which foods are worth their calories.
They used surveys from 17 states to collect their data.
mengel@nydailynews.com
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