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

Navigating the Grocery Store Aisle
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Publication Description

Navigating the grocery store aisle is challenging. This guide shares how a team of Extension educators developed an interactive mobile app to help consumers understand “non-GMO” and other food labels.

This work is supported by New Technologies for Agriculture 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.

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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