Exploring the Readability of Ingredients Lists of Food Labels with Existing Metrics

We report a broad variability for in readability using different metrics: ingredients lists recorded at a 9th grade reading level or higher to comprehend are found at rates of 16.5% (Automated Reading Index) to 74.9% (Gunning-Fog Index). Ingredients lists recorded at a 10th grade reading level or higher to comprehend are found at rates of 84.2% (using FRE Index). These results demonstrate the need to further explore how ingredients lists can be measured for readability, both for the purposes of consumer understanding as well as for supporting future nutrition research involving text mining.PMID:35854712 | PMC:PMC9285159
Source: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Source Type: research