The implications of this overview for public health nutrition are:
(i) We need to pay greater attention to the development of children’s and adults’ knowledge frameworks
(schema building); (ii) There is a need for a renewed proactive role for the education sector; (iii) We need to take
account of consumers’ personal food goals and their acquisition of procedural knowledge which will enable
them to attain their goals; (iv) Finally, much more research into the ways people learn and use food-related
knowledge is required in the form of experimental interventions and longitudinal studies.