title: [Investigation on the nutrition labels of prepackaged traditional foods of Henan Province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the current status of nutrition labeling on Henan province local traditional prepackaged food product.
  
  
  METHODS
  Purchasing the samplings according with the include criteria in the supermarket and retail stores within the scope of province, then taking photographs and logging nutrition labeling information to questionnaire, using Excel and SPSS 15.0 software to analyze. The .significance of difference rate was judged by chi-square test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sum of meeting requirement samplings was 565 (including 5 major categories and 13 small classes) and the entire nutritional labeling signing rate was 91.9%. The signing rate of forced signing nutrients such as energy, protein, carbohydrates, fat and sodium was 98.8%. There were 7 kinds of mistakes of nutritional labeling signing. The nutrition labeling signing rate of optional nutrients was very low. The signing rate of nutrition claims and function claims was less than 4%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the traditional local prepackaged food products made in Henan province, the forced signed nutrition labeling was well sighed but optional content was ignored.
authors.forename: Shengsheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Pengyu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Pu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ding
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Shufang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D005502:Food; D005515:Food Labeling / Q000592:standards*; D018857:Food Packaging; D006801:Humans; D007881:Legislation, Food; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009753:Nutritive Value; D012982:Sodium, Dietary
chemical_list: D012982:Sodium, Dietary