Introduction
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Poor dietary quality remains a leading cause of death in the US.To provide easier-to-access nutrition information and address poor dietary quality, the Biden-Harris Administration and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have indicated plans to develop a front-of-package food labeling system that would quickly communicate products’ nutritional quality.Several types of front-of-package food labeling systems have been proposed or studied. The FDA, for example, is developing an “endorsement” label that promotes foods meeting the FDA’s definition of healthy.To address these gaps and inform food labeling policies, this randomized clinical trial sought to examine the effect of different food labeling systems on beverage and snack selections and to assess whether label effects differ by education level in a well-powered sample. We also evaluated how people responded to and perceived the labeling systems.