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Consumer's practicality, acknowledgement, trust, satisfaction, necessity degrees about food nutrition labeling system (식품영양표시에 대한 소비자 의식조사 -활용도, 인지도, 신뢰도, 만족도, 필요도를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Ok;Kim, Young-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.761-773
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    • 2007
  • The study undertakes an examination of nutrition labelling system and offers a strategic framework for improvement of the system in Korean context. Thus this study includes a review of Korean current nutrition labelling system (NLS), development of a strategy or a further study for its revision of NLS, and a suggestion of revised nutrition labelling guidelines. Participants were 600 university students in Busan and were asked to fill in a questionnaire. The data collected were processed with the SPSS statistical program to produce its frequency, percentage, average, and standard deviation with One-Way Anova and Duncan Test. The findings are as follows: the levels of consumer's practical use and awareness of NLS are low, the levels of their trust and satisfaction and their necessity for NLS are low too. Consequently, the consumer's attitudes to NLS are not related to nutrition labelling method(? system).

School Dietitians′ Perception on Nutrition Labelling of the Processed and Packaged Foods in Incheon (인천지역 학교급식 영양사의 가공포장식품 영양표시에 대한 인식)

  • 정혜열;장경자
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.636-643
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate school dietitians' perception on nutrition labelling of processed and packaged foods in the Incheon area. This study was carried out through a self-administered questionnaire and the subjects were 203 school dietitians. The results were summarized as follows. Most of the subjects checked nutrition labeling of processed and packaged foods when they purchased these foods for school lunch. However, the main reason for their checking nutrition labeling of processed and packaged foods was not for nutrition but for food safety. There were significant differences in the subjects' understanding and trust on nutrition labeling of processed and packaged foods by employment school. The scores of the subjects' satisfaction, understanding and trust on nutrition labeling of processed and packaged foods were not high. There were significant differences in the subjects' perception and concern about content information on nutrition labeling of domestic processed and packaged foods by employment school. Most of the subjects answered that it is almost necessary or very necessary to implement nutrition labelling of processed and packaged foods. Also their most preferred method of nutrition labelling was to label nutrient content. As the most important nutrient and functional component necessary for nutrition labelling, they answered energy, mineral such as calcium and iron, protein, total fat, cholesterol, vitamin, sodium and dietary fiber in order. As the major prerequisite task for the implementation of nutrition labelling, they answered formulation of nutrition labelling-related rules, and education and motivation for consumer, Therefore, it is necessary to activate the mandatory nutrition labelling of the processed and packaged foods and to prepare its consumer education program for school dietitian.

A Comparative Study on the Dietary Behavior and Recognition on Food Labelling of Processed Foods according to the Degree of Health Concern in University Students (대학생들의 건강 관심도에 따른 가공식품 관련 식행동과 식품표시 인식에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Jang, Jae-Seon;Hong, Myung-Sun
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.529-537
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze University student's dietary behavior for processed foods and recognition on food nutrition labelling according to the degree of health concern. For this study, 302 University students in Gyeonggi region was surveyed by questionnaire from May in 2016 and it included the questions about general matters, dietary behavior on processed foods, and the food nutrition label system. It was analysed by SPSS win 23.0 program. And the results are as follows. According to the result of the factor analysis, the preference of processed foods were showed 3.21~3.97. There were significant differences in milk and milk products preference according to health concern (p<0.05). Also frequency of processed foods was shown significant differences in milk and milk products, noodles, beverage, and fast food (p<0.05), whereas no significant differences were found in meat products, snack, bread and frozen food (p>0.05). Also, the processed food purchase consideration according to health concern was shown significant differences in nutrition, origin, manufacturing company (p<0.05), whereas no significant differences were found in taste, price, exterior, brand, and shelf life (p>0.05). Thus, it is necessary to do continuing public relations and to provide more opportunities for nutrition education so that the University students may obtain right dietary behavior on processed foods and the system of food nutrition indication be established properly.

A Survey on Customers' Perceptions of Nutrition Labeling for Processed Food and Restaurant Meal (가공식품 및 외식 영양표시에 대한 소비자인식조사)

  • Kwon, Kwang-Il;Yoon, Sung-Won;Kim, So-Jin;Kang, Ha-Ni;Kim, Hae-Na;Kim, Jee-Young;Kim, Seo-Young;Kim, Kil-Lye;Lee, Jun-Hyung;Jung, Sun-Mi;Ock, So-Won;Lee, Eun-Ju;Kim, Jong-Wook;Kim, Myung-Chul;Park, Hye-Kyung
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2010
  • Consumer perception of processed food and restaurant food's nutrient labelling was surveyed. The subjects of this survey consisted of 1,507 parents, whose ages were 20-59 years old. The ratio of the respondents that have known nutrition labelling on processed foods was 89.8% and the ratio of whom have checked the nutrition labelling at their point of purchase was 72.3%. The nutrients which were considered important for nutrition labelling were fat (57.1%), calorie (56.3%) and sodium (49.0%). Also nutrient which were able to be recognized at a glance by the subjects were in the order of trans fat (62.1%), cholesterol (26.9%), calorie (23.9%) and sodium (21.0%). If restaurant menu's nutrient labelling be enacted, the answer rate that the menu's nutrition labelling may affect their menu choice is 90.6% of the respondents. Besides of the Fastfoods that are enforcement, restaurants of that customers want the menu to be labeled were 'pizza and chicken restaurants'. Nutrients that customers preferred to be labelled were calorie (62.0%), fat (60.3%) and sodium (50.9%).

Scientific Principles on the Revision and Addition of the Codex Nutrient Reference Values for Food Labelling Purposes (식품표시를 위한 코덱스 영양소기준치 개정에 필요한 과학적 근거)

  • Chang, Nam-Soo;Cho, Youn-Ok;Joung, Hyo-Jee;Chung, Hae-Rang;Kim, Hye-Young;Choi, Young-Sun;Lim, Hyeon-Sook;Yun, Jin-Sook;Kwon, O-Ran
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2009
  • There has been a need to update the current Codex nutrient reference values (NRVs) which had been established following the Helsinki Consultation in 1988. The main purposes of NRVs are to help consumers compare the nutrient content of different food products and estimate the usefulness of a food product in terms of its percentage contribution to the overall healthful diets. The establishment of Codex NRVs for labelling purposes is intended to facilitate the goals of protecting consumers' health and ensuring fair practices in food trade. When revising the Codex NRVs several issues are needed to discussed, which are: 1) Consideration of population groups whether to have one set of NRVs for general population or to have several sets of NRVs for each population groups, 2) Determination of scope of nutrients such as what nutrients to include and what reference values to choose and 3) Development of principles for establishing NRVs such as the selection of suitable reference values among many including recommended intake/recommended dietary allowances, estimated average requirement and upper levels to extract NRVs. This paper will discuss the above issues and the inputs and efforts that the Korean Nutrition Society had put into to carry out the project, "International Collaboration on the Revision and Addition of the Codex Nutrient Reference Values for Food Labelling Purposes," and to ascertain relevant scientific principles and evidences that are utilized for establishment and revision of the Codex NRVs.