Navigating the Grocery Store Aisle: Understanding Non-GMO and Other Food Labels

Publication Description

Navigating the grocery store aisle is challenging – This guide shares how an interactive mobile app was developed to understand “non-GMO” & other food labels.

Land-Grant Institution

University of Connecticut

Author(s) (NAME, EMAIL, INSTITUTION)

Stacey Stearns, stacey.stearns@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut
Cristina Connolly, cristina.connolly@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut

Publication Audience

General Public, Cooperative Extension

Publication Type

Process Publication

Publication Date

August 13, 2021

Copyright

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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