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Under the online catering consumption model based on electronic transactions, compared with traditional tough intervention policies, the nudging strategy can make full use of the advantages of information technology and effectively promote consumers\u2019 choice of healthy diet to interfere with the dietary behavior of online catering consumers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The objective of this study is to design a choice environment on online platforms through nudge strategies, so as to reduce the cognitive resistance and inertia of consumers in decision-making. By means of guidance rather than coercion, it enables consumers to make healthy choices more easily and proactively, thereby promoting the occurrence of healthy eating behaviors invisibly. Based on the subdividing of respondents based on the characteristics of consumer groups, we explored the different expected intervention effects of providing decision information, changing decision structure, and providing decision-making assistance-type nudging strategies on consumers with different characteristics. This paper divides the nudging strategies into three categories: providing decision information type, changing decision structure type, and providing decision assistance type. The subjects of this paper must be consumers who have their own experience of eating online food and beverages. A total of 44,050 valid samples were collected.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results found that nudging strategies have a positive impact on healthy eating behaviors; specifically, women, lower education, lower income consumers, and chronic patients are more susceptible to the healthy diet-nudging strategies.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compared with providing decision-making information type and changing decision-making structure type by constructing multinomial logistic regression models, the intervention effect of providing decision-making auxiliary nudging strategies is slightly insufficient. 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