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Introducing taxes, subsidies or both: The effects of various food pricing strategies in a web-based supermarket randomized trial

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of varying taxing and subsiding schemes to stimulate healthier food purchases. Some key insights from the study:

  • “Price decreases are effective in stimulating healthy food purchases, but the proportion of healthy foods remains unaffected. Price increases up to 25% on unhealthier products do not significantly affect food purchases. Future studies are important to validate these results in real supermarkets and across different countries”.

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Ineffective consumer behaviour, What others say: experts, Albertine Schuit, Food prices, food purchases, Health policy, Ingrid Steenhuis, Jacob Seidell, Michiel de Boer, nutrition policy, Wilma Waterlander