This research was to compare and to analyze the recognition and the use of indicated nutritional facts, its inflection, and the experiences of indicated nutritional facts education for 670 randomly selected middle-school students in Seoul. This resear...
This research was to compare and to analyze the recognition and the use of indicated nutritional facts, its inflection, and the experiences of indicated nutritional facts education for 670 randomly selected middle-school students in Seoul. This research also purposed to be used as a basic material for younger aged consumers to stand recognition of nutritional facts indication through the positive practice of such.
1. In the degree of processed food preferences depend on the gender, male students preferred beverage, noodle, processed meat, confectionery, other-instant food , diary products , processed fish cakes , frozen foods and canned food in order. For female students, the figure shows other-instant food, confectionery, beverage, diary products, processed meat, noodle, processed fish cakes, frozen foods and canned food are preferred.
There is meaningful difference on each gender's preference on 'noodle' and 'beverage' (p<0.001, p<0.05).
2. Facts that influences on decision making of processed food purchase, male students placed price on the top, and expiry date, taste, ingredient's place of origin, external appearance, food additives, indicated nutritional facts and the manufacturer are placed behind. However for female students, expiry date placed first, and price, taste, ingredient's place of origin, external appearance, nutritional facts indication, food additives, and the manufacturer are followed.
Male students have chosen 'price'as a most significant influence for processed food purchase while female students placed 'expiry date' instead (p<0.05).
3. For the question 'what makes you to purchase processed food', both group have chosen 'its preferable taste' in first place, and 'its conveniences', and 'habitual purchase' followed. Nevertheless, 'its nutritional good' is placed far behind. Both gender groups responded 'its preferable taste' as most important standard for processed food purchase.
4. To find about nutritional facts identification practice, both male and female students positively responded to the question 'whether they have ever been checked the nutritional facts displayed on the products' cover', 85.6% of female students and 76.5% of male students answered 'yes' despite the fact that there still remainsdifferences between the gender(p<0.01).
Both gender groups generally pointed their parents, relatives and friends as a major route for nutritional knowledge and information acquisition and the TV, internet, class lecture, magazines, and newspapers are followed.
5. For the needs of nutritional facts indication, each gender group responded differently (p<0.05).
There is a certain difference between each gender group in the practice of nutritional facts identification (p<0.01).
Among those who have experiences the nutritional facts identification, 39.1% of male students responded 'to find principal nutrition', 25.3% on 'for health maintenance', 23.5% on 'for my own curiosity about newly added information on the package'. Meanwhile, female students responded 'for health maintenance'-39.2%, 'to find principal nutrition'-32.8%, and 'for my own curiosity about newly added information on the package'-17.9% (p<0.05).
Both gender groups, however, positively agreed that it is necessary to indicate nutritional facts on the processed foods (p<0.001).
6. It has been found that there are significant differences between 'nutritionally educated' group and 'nutritionally non-educated' group in the degree of nutritional facts identification in case of noodle, beverage, and instant food purchase(p<0.01, p<0.001).
Those who are 'nutritionally educated' gives more concern on the nutritional facts in instant-food purchase than those 'non-educated' (p<0.05).
The figure shows high rate of 'nutritional facts' recognition even though are not nutritionally educated.
7. There is significant difference existing on 'the needs of nutritional facts identification and its promotion' and 'the degree of impact on daily dietary lifeif foods are purchased after nutrition check' (p<0.001).
'The needs of nutritional facts identification and its promotion' and 'the needs nutritional facts identification on all processed food products' also have shown meaningful difference (p<0.001).