What do you think of nutrition labels and what do you think?Listen to the expert's answer

The National Health Commission held a press conference on June 27 to introduce the progress and results of food safety and nutritional health work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the meeting, Li Ning, director of the National Food Safety Risk Evaluation Center, introduced: Nutrition label consumers are particularly concerned that the role of nutrition label is to convey the nutritional information of food to consumers.

Nutrition labels mainly include three parts, one is the nutritional component table, the other is nutritional claims, and the third is the nutritional functional claim.

The nutritional composition table is a very important information. There are often three columns of data in the nutritional component table: the first column of data, which shows that the types of nutrients mainly contain this food; the second column data reflects the food per 100 grams of food or 100 ml, or the food per food Different food units are different. For example, the liquid is 100 ml, the solid is 100 grams, and there are each portion. The content of various nutrients in these foods. The third column data is the percentage of NRV, which reflects that each person eats 100 grams of food a day. Each nutrient meets the degree of the human body. For example, protein, if I ate 100 grams, then I ate 8.3 grams of protein to meet my body's body. It is 14%. The reference value of protein is 60 grams, and 8.3 grams is exactly 14%with 60 grams. I eat 100 grams of biscuits to satisfy my calcium 35%. Of course, this is not enough. Other insufficient nutrients should be intake from other foods.

This nutrition composition table is currently the "Nutrition of Food Nutrition Tags", which is the mandatory standard for nutrition labels. In the types of nutrients, the nutritional content must be marked. The current standards must be standard, protein, fat, carbohydrates, sodium, calcium and iron are voluntary signs of the enterprise. This standard is also revised. The main content of the revision is to add compulsory logo requirements for sugar and saturated fatty acids on the basis of mandatory standard nutrients. This is the information of the nutritional component table.

There is also the function of nutritional ingredients, which is the claim of the height of nutrients. For example, this biscuits are high -calcium biscuits, why can it claim high calcium? Because its calcium content is relatively high, it meets 35%of the required amount. So it made high calcium claims. Of course, different foods can be claimed according to the characteristics of nutrient content, such as it can claim high -protein foods. In addition, the function of food nutritional ingredients claims to be low -fat or fat -free, low sodium or sodium -free, low sugar or sugar -free, etc. There are strict regulations in nutritional label standards. Because this biscuit is a high calcium biscuits, it can be claimed that the function of calcium claims that this claims that calcium helps bones and teeth more strong. The nutrition label standard has strict standard terms for each nutrient function, so when the enterprise claims the functional claims, it is strictly claimed in accordance with the standard language that a text cannot be changed.

In order to allow consumers to better understand the label, the amended nutrition label standards also encourage and allow enterprises to supplement the information in food packaging to supplement the information in the nutrition label and use charts and text. (Reporter Long Xiaoqin Liu Tingyu)

(Source: Xinhua News Agency Client CCTV News Client)

【Edit: Fu Sakura】

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