A literature review of packaging design for children's snacks based on a healthy choice perspective, 2018-2024
List of Authors
  • Cui Yongmin , Fauzi Naeim

Keyword
  • Healthy Choices, Children's Snack Packaging, Literature Review

Abstract
  • This paper takes the perspective of how children's snack food packaging design influences children to make purchasing decisions. It is based on research literature from scholars at home and abroad and examines four main lines of research: how the visual elements and information on the snack food packaging influences children's purchasing of snack food; research on evaluating the effectiveness of front nutritional labeling of food packaging from a consumer perspective; and a study on factors influencing children's consumption. The validity of the front nutritional labelling of children's snack food packaging from the consumer's viewpoint, and the packaging that is deceptive and misguides the consumer into purchasing unhealthy snack food. A study on evaluating the effectiveness of front nutritional labelling of food packaging from a consumer perspective, and a study on factors influencing children's consumption. The literature review for this study commences with an examination of healthy choices, children's snack packaging design, and children's snack purchasing influencing factors. The period of observation and analysis is primarily from 2018 to 2024. This temporal scope is beneficial for the purpose of this study, which is to elucidate the methods, purposes, and ideas behind children's snack packaging design and to ascertain how such design influences children's health choices in the context of country-specific differences.

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