Importance and performance of food and nutrition labeling for school adolescents in Seoul

Jeong-Yoon Yoon; Ae Wha Ha; Seyoung Ju

doi:10.4163/jnh.2017.50.4.383

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Yoon, Ha, and Ju: Importance and performance of food and nutrition labeling for school adolescents in Seoul

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Journal of Nutrition and Health 2017; 50(4): 383-390.

Published online: 31 August 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4163/jnh.2017.50.4.383

Importance and performance of food and nutrition labeling for school adolescents in Seoul

Jeong-Yoon Yoon¹, Ae Wha Ha², Seyoung Ju³

¹Major in Nutrition Education, Graduate school of Education, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.

²Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Natural Nutraceuticals Industrization Research Center, DanKook University, Chungnam 31116, Korea.

³Major in Food and Nutrition, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju 27478, Korea.

To whom correspondence should be addressed. tel: +82-43-840-3582, syoungju86@kku.ac.kr

Received 1 June 2017 Revised 19 June 2017 Accepted 4 July 2017

(open-access):

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

This study investigated the importance and performance of food/nutrition labeling. The aim was to determine how important students consider food nutritional labeling, utilization of nutrition labels in daily life, and consumer satisfaction of current nutritional labeling.

Methods

This study was conducted using a primary survey of students at one high school in Seoul. A total of 300 of 382 questionnaires were analyzed.

Results

Regarding difference analysis of the importance-performance of food/nutrition labeling, importance showed higher scores than performance in all 10 attributes. According to the results of Importance and Performance Analysis (IPA), ‘health, weight control and maintenance, proper dietary habits, and personal satisfaction’ displayed both high importance and performance in the first quadrant. Importance of two factors (health and nutritional factor and effects of media and education) of the 10 attributes positively influenced overall satisfaction in the multiple regression analysis.

Conclusion

To develop healthier food choices, it is necessary to educate adolescents about food/nutrition labeling and improve the food/nutrition labeling system.

Keywords: adolescents, IPA, food, nutrition, labeling

Figures and Tables

Fig. 1

Importance-performance analysis (IPA) of attributes for food/nutrition labeling

Table 1

The general characteristics of subjects

1) Mean ± SD

Table 2

Analysis of Importance-Performance about food/nutrition labeling

Importance score: 1 point (strongly unimportant) ~ 5 point (strongly important)

Performance score: 1 point (do not very perform) ~ 5 point (very perform)

1) p-value by paired t-test 2) Mean ± Standard deviation

Table 3

Factor analysis of the attribute' importance of food/nutrition labeling

KMO: 0.874^***

^***p < 0.001

Table 4

Correlation analysis regarding importance attributes and overall satisfaction of food/nutrition labeling

1) Correlation coefficient

^**p < 0.001

Table 5

Multiple regression analysis of importance attributes and overall satisfaction for food/nutrition labeling

R² = 0.11, F = 17.998^***

^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001

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