Assessment on knowledge, attitude and practices of food and nutrition labeling usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan
Food and nutrition labeling contain a lot of information about the food and nutrition which are available on most of food packages. Food and nutrition labeling is one of the tools which play the vital roles in guided the consumers in choosing the healthy foods. The purpose of this study was to as...
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| description | Food and nutrition labeling contain a lot of information about the food and nutrition
which are available on most of food packages. Food and nutrition labeling is one of the
tools which play the vital roles in guided the consumers in choosing the healthy foods.
The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices on
usage of food and nutrition labeling among adult consumers in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
Socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, education level,
occupation and body mass index (BMI) also had been assessed to determine the
relationship with the usage of food and nutrition labeling. 164 participants were
conveniently approached and willing to answer the questionnaire of this study. Almost
all of the adults consumers (96.3%) of hypermarket, supermarket and minimarket were
tend to read food label information. While finding in this study showed that only 54.9%
of adult consumers tend to read nutrition labeling. In this study also found 59.1% of
adult consumers understand well on the terms, the important and the role of some of
nutrition information on their daily practices and to their health. Besides, only a few of
food label information showed the significant association with the socio-demographic
characteristics (p<0.005) and gender as well as occupation showed the significant
different to the mean of important nutrition information (p<0.05). Thus, nutrition literacy
and knowledge should be improve in order to ensure adult consumers can use and
interpret wisely the food and nutrition information provided in choosing healthy food. |
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| spelling | usm-622602025-06-29T07:30:14Z http://eprints.usm.my/62260/ Assessment on knowledge, attitude and practices of food and nutrition labeling usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan Zakaria, Nur Izzul Husna R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine Food and nutrition labeling contain a lot of information about the food and nutrition which are available on most of food packages. Food and nutrition labeling is one of the tools which play the vital roles in guided the consumers in choosing the healthy foods. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices on usage of food and nutrition labeling among adult consumers in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, education level, occupation and body mass index (BMI) also had been assessed to determine the relationship with the usage of food and nutrition labeling. 164 participants were conveniently approached and willing to answer the questionnaire of this study. Almost all of the adults consumers (96.3%) of hypermarket, supermarket and minimarket were tend to read food label information. While finding in this study showed that only 54.9% of adult consumers tend to read nutrition labeling. In this study also found 59.1% of adult consumers understand well on the terms, the important and the role of some of nutrition information on their daily practices and to their health. Besides, only a few of food label information showed the significant association with the socio-demographic characteristics (p<0.005) and gender as well as occupation showed the significant different to the mean of important nutrition information (p<0.05). Thus, nutrition literacy and knowledge should be improve in order to ensure adult consumers can use and interpret wisely the food and nutrition information provided in choosing healthy food. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/62260/1/NUR%20IZZUL%20HUSNA%20BT%20ZAKARIA%20-%20e.pdf Zakaria, Nur Izzul Husna (2016) Assessment on knowledge, attitude and practices of food and nutrition labeling usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted) |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine Zakaria, Nur Izzul Husna Assessment on knowledge, attitude and practices of food and nutrition labeling usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title | Assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title_full | Assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title_fullStr | Assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title_short | Assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, Kelantan |
| title_sort | assessment on knowledge, attitude and
practices of food and nutrition labeling
usage among adult in kota bharu, kelantan |
| topic | R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/62260/ http://eprints.usm.my/62260/1/NUR%20IZZUL%20HUSNA%20BT%20ZAKARIA%20-%20e.pdf |