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. 2024 Oct 12;10(20):e39060. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39060

Table 4.

Questions to evaluate participants’ food labels interpretation.

Question Type of response PRE response
Quantity (%) or Mean ± SD
POST response
Quantity (%) or Mean ± SD
p
Do you know what to look for on a label to find out if a food contains gluten or not? Scale 0 (I do not know) −4 (I know it very well) 3.04 ± 1.02 3.56 ± 0.54 <0.001
Do all gluten-free foods have to be labelled “gluten-free”? No 16 15 <0.01
Yes 70 81
I do not know 14 2
No response 0 2
Does this food contain gluten? (popcorn, with marked traces) No 28 35 NS
Yes 63 59
I do not know 8 3
No response 1 3
Does this food contain gluten? (conventional biscuits) No 3 1 NS
Yes 89 96
I do not know 6 0
No response 2 3
Does this food contain gluten? (chicken breast) No 73 83 NS (0.095)
Yes 10 9
I do not know 15 6
No response 2 2
Does this food contain gluten? (specific gluten-free bread) No 63 69 NS
Yes 30 28
I do not know 6 1
No response 1 2

∗As n = 100, the number of responses and the percentage are equal, so only the percentages are described. NS: non significant.