CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 322Nutrition, Health and Food BehaviorConsumer Packaging Perceptions and TrendsConsumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 9 of the 9 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Bad Popcorn in Big Buckets: Portion Size Can Influence Intake as Much as Taste

Open access
Wansink, Brian, Kim, Junyong·2005·Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
DOI 10.1016/s1499-4046(06)60278-9
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Objective It is often believed that people overeat the foods they like. We investigated whether environmental cues such as packaging and container size are so powerful that they can increase our intake of foods that are less palatable.Design, setting, and participants In a 2 x 2 between-subjects design, 158 moviegoers in Philadelphia (57.6% male; 28.7 years) were randomly given a medium (120 g) or a large (240 g) container of free popcorn that was either fresh or stale (14 days old). Following the movie, consumption measures were taken, along with measures of perceived taste.Outcome measures and results Moviegoers who were given fresh popcorn ate 45.3% more popcorn when it was given to them in large containers. This container-size influence is so powerful that even when the popcorn was disliked, people still ate 33.6% more popcorn when eating from a large container than from a medium-size container.Conclusions and implications Even when foods are not palatable, large packages and containers can lead to overeating. The silver lining of these findings may be that portion size can also be used to increase the consumption of less preferred healthful foods, such as raw vegetables.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s1499-4046(06)60278-9

Cites

9 of 9 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

1 retracted

Show all 9 references

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Fisher, 2001, Effects of repeated exposure of a large portion-sized entree on children's eating, Obesity Res, 9, 76S
  2. Kral, 2002, Increasing the portion size of a packaged snack increases energy intake, Appetite, 39, 86
  3. Wansink B. Mindless Eating:The Hidden Persuaders that Make Us Lose and GainWeight. NewYork:Bantam-Dell;In press.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 201–300 of 322

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Wansink, B., & Kim, J.
Affiliations
  • Cornell University (US)
  • University of Central Florida (US)
Corresponding author
Wansink, Brian
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-09
Volume
37
Issue
5
Pages
242-245
ISSN
1499-4046 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s1499-4046(06)60278-9
OpenAlex
W2105214281
Cited by
322
References
9
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 29 · 2012: 25
FWCI
8.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
  • The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journals, Books and Databases (The Royal Society of Chemistry) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Keywords
portion size, container size, overeating, food packaging, environmental cues, dietary intake, taste perception, palatability, snacking, popcorn, moviegoers
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Energy Intake, Eating, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Taste, Food Packaging

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review