Background
OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY
Overweight and obesity contribute to poor health globally [Analyses of major UK restaurant chains showed that only 9% of dishes had an energy content of less than 600 kcals a meal, and 47% of dishes were at least 1000 kcals or more, which equates to half of the daily-recommended energy intake for a woman [The environments in which food is purchased influence our behaviours. Automatic reactions to how options are presented to us in our environment, sometimes lead to choices and behaviours that may detrimentally affect our health [Studies looking at the impact of such choice architecture interventions in restaurant-type settings have found that increasing availability of healthy foods, promotion and pricing changes were all effective in changing purchasing decisions [This proof-of-concept study explores how interventions repositioning lower-energy options to be more prominent influence food choices in a simulated food delivery platform and if these interventions can help to reduce the amount of energy selected.