Is this food healthy? Understanding how individuals evaluate food healthiness is important because their evaluation can affect their food choices and consumption quantities, potentially leading to obesity and other health problems. However, individuals often find it difficult to process the health information to evaluate food healthiness, so they rely on their intuition or lay beliefs to make the judgment. This paper reviews recent empirical findings to highlight how individuals use lay beliefs based on sensory cues (e.g., visual, taste) and cognitive cues (e.g., nutrition label, price) to infer food healthiness and how this perception of food healthiness affects their food consumption. We conclude by discussing possible future opportunities in lay beliefs and food perception.

这种食物健康吗？了解个人如何评估食物健康很重要，因为他们的评估会影响他们的食物选择和消费量，可能导致肥胖和其他健康问题。然而，个人经常发现很难处理健康信息来评估食物的健康状况，因此他们依靠自己的直觉或外行信仰来做出判断。本文回顾了最近的实证研究结果，强调个人如何使用基于感官线索（例如，视觉、味觉）和认知线索（例如，营养标签、价格）的非专业信念来推断食品健康，以及这种对食品健康的看法如何影响他们的食品消费. 最后，我们讨论了非专业信仰和食物感知方面可能的未来机会。