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Washington, April 1 : Providing calorie and nutrition information on the menu can influence consumers' food choices and prompt them to eat sensibly, a new report says.

More and more Americans eating out demand nutritional labelling of restaurant food as the country faces an epidemic of obesity.

"Using only the sense of taste, smell, and sight to accurately estimate the levels of calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium found in a typical restaurant food serving is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for most consumers," wrote the study authors.