Food packaging must be bright with nutrients.

/kloc-The Management Standard for Food Nutrition Labeling, which came into effect from 0/5, will guide and help consumers to choose food reasonably and learn to have a balanced diet.

The "Food Nutrition Labeling Management Standard" (hereinafter referred to as the "Standard") will be implemented 5438+0 on May 6th. The food nutrition label is to provide consumers with the information and description of the nutritional components of food, including the list of nutritional components, nutritional claims and functional claims of nutritional components, and it is the main way for consumers to understand the nutritional components and characteristics of food.

"Food is the most important thing for the people", and code is related to the nutrition and health of the people, which can be said to be a major event in people's lives. So what is the current market situation? What benefits will the implementation of the Code bring to people's lives? Recently, the reporter visited many supermarkets and convenience stores in the provincial capital and interviewed relevant experts.

Food nutrition label "map" is hard to find

The reporter found in a supermarket in Zhongshan Road, the provincial capital, that most of the food packages that people often eat, such as potato chips, ham sausages, beef jerky, biscuits and melon seeds, are only marked with the name, ingredients, net weight, production date, shelf life and batch number. Although there is a list of nutrients on some food packages, the names, types and units of nutrients are different and lack of standardization. There is only one approximate numerical range for each nutrient.

"According to the Code, these labeling methods on food packaging at present do not meet the requirements." Wang Yuejin, director of the Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation Institute of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that there is no uniform standard for food nutrition labeling. Most of the packaging is food labels, not nutrition labels, and some are standards formulated by individual industries themselves. With China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), the requirements of other countries for nutrition labels of imported foods have prompted some food enterprises in China to realize its importance and start using nutrition labels, but it is not standardized enough.

The standard requires that all foods in fixed packages should have nutrition labels, including energy, nutrients, water and dietary fiber. , and should first indicate the energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium and their content, per100g (ml) or the content value in each food. With the implementation of the Code, food nutrition labeling will be gradually on the right track.

Consumers are a little blind when choosing food.

In a supermarket in Taihua Street, the provincial capital, Ms. Wang, who is shopping, told reporters that when she buys food, she usually chooses a better brand and also looks at the ingredient list. Pointing to a brand of biscuits, she said that its ingredients are composed of wheat flour, milk powder, refined vegetable oil, walnuts, eggs, calcium and other substances, which should be quite nutritious. She said that it is a good thing to establish a food nutrition labeling system. If you have a food nutrition label, you will definitely pay attention to it when you choose food again.

At the checkout counter, a young man bought a big bag of colorful food. He said that he had just got married and seldom cooked on the fire. He often buys some convenient food, which is convenient and easy to eat. He can buy whatever he wants. When asked by a reporter whether he had heard of the Measures for the Administration of Food Nutrition Labeling, he said: "I haven't heard of it yet, and it seems that it has little to do with me. Anyway, I used to eat. "

In this regard, Director Wang Yuejin believes that many people are still in a blind state when buying food. Although people's health awareness has been enhanced in recent years, and the level of nutrition knowledge has also been improved, it is still far from meeting the requirements of a reasonable and balanced diet. Many people seldom consider calories and nutrients when buying food, and usually eat whatever they want until they are full. At present, there are dual problems of undernutrition and overnutrition among residents in our province, which are closely related to daily diet nutrition. The function of food nutrition label is to let consumers know the nutritional characteristics of food, choose suitable food according to their own health needs, and use it as a reference for their daily dietary balance to guide consumers to establish a balanced dietary nutrition structure.

Hebei people eat more salt every day.

Wang Yuejin stressed that it is of great guiding significance for people's lives to take out the list of four nutrients, such as sodium and salt, and to indicate them first. Because energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium are nutrients of public health significance in China. Once lacking, it will cause malnutrition and affect the growth, development and health of children and adolescents; Excessive consumption can lead to obesity and chronic diseases.

According to the survey results of nutrition and health status of rural residents in our province, the average daily salt intake of rural residents is12.0g, and even as high as16g in some places, which is much higher than the standard put forward by the World Health Organization, that is, the average daily salt intake of adults is no more than 6g. The survey shows that the higher the salt intake, the higher the risk of hypertension. Compared with people who eat less than 6 grams of salt a day, people who eat more than 6 grams of salt a day have an increased risk of hypertension by 54%, and those who eat more than 18 grams of salt a day have an increased risk of hypertension by 6 1%.

Nowadays, many people begin to pay attention to controlling the salt content in cooking, but often ignore the salt content in packaged food, because many foods in daily diet also contain salt. For example, many seasonings contain salt, such as soy sauce, vinegar and monosodium glutamate. Many breads, biscuits and fried dough sticks also contain salt, and some snacks such as potato chips, ham sausages and melon seeds also contain salt. But now the ingredient list on food packaging does not indicate the content of edible salt, and the salty taste of food is often covered by fragrance and sweetness, so some foods are not salty to eat. Wang Yuejin reminded the public that these salts should also be included in the daily total salt quantity, so that the salt consumption can not exceed the standard.