Evaluation of Dietary Quality and Nutritional Status according to the Use of Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claims among University Students in Chungbuk Area - Based on Nutrition Quotient

Yun-Jung Bae; Seo Young Park; Hye-Rin Bak

doi:10.5720/kjcn.2020.25.3.179

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Evaluation of Dietary Quality and Nutritional Status according to the Use of Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claims among University Students in Chungbuk Area - Based on Nutrition Quotient: Yun-Jung Bae, Seo Young Park, Hye-Rin Bak; Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2020;25(3):179-188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2020.25.3.179
Published online: June 30, 2020

¹Associate professor, Major in Food and Nutrition, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, Korea

²Student, Major in Food and Nutrition, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, Korea

Corresponding author: Hye-Rin Bak,
Email: byj@ut.ac.kr

Received: 19 May 2020 • Revised: 22 June 2020 • Accepted: 22 June 2020

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Abstract

Objectives
The study examined the status on the use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims among university students as well as the diet quality and nutritional status using the nutrition quotient (NQ) according to the use of nutrition labeling and claims.
Methods
A cross-sectional survey was conducted on university students (86 males and 131 females) from March to April in 2019 in Chungbuk area.
Results
The percentage of subjects who reported that they recognized nutrition labeling was 80.2% of the total, and 63.8% of them indicated that they used nutrition labeling for their food choices. In addition, 22.6% of the total subjects said that they used nutrition claims. The group of subjects using nutrition labeling showed significantly higher mean scores in balance (P < 0.01), diversity (P < 0.05), moderation (P < 0.01), and dietary behavior (P < 0.001) along with higher mean NQ score (P < 0.001) compared to the group not using nutrition labeling. The group using nutrition claims had significantly higher mean scores in balance (P < 0.001), diversity (P < 0.01), moderation (P < 0.001), and dietary behavior (P < 0.001) as well as total NQ scores (P < 0.001) compared to the group not using nutrition claims. The group of subjects using both nutrition labeling and nutrition claims showed significantly higher mean NQ scores than the group of subjects using either nutrition labeling or nutrition claims (P < 0.05).
Conclusions
In this study, university students' use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims appeared to be related to their diet quality and nutritional status.

Keywords: nutrition labeling; nutrition claims; dietary quality; nutrition quotient; university students

Korean J Community Nutr. 2020 Jun;25(3):179-188. Korean.
Published online Jun 30, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2020.25.3.179

Original Article

Evaluation of Dietary Quality and Nutritional Status according to the Use of Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claims among University Students in Chungbuk Area - Based on Nutrition Quotient

Yun-Jung Bae

,¹ Seo Young Park

,² and Hye-Rin Bak

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- ¹Associate professor, Major in Food and Nutrition, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, Korea.
- ²Student, Major in Food and Nutrition, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, Korea.
Corresponding author: Yun-Jung Bae. Major in Food and Nutrition, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Korea National University of Transportation, 61 Daehak-ro, Jeungpyeong-gun, Chungbuk 27909, South Korea. Tel: (043) 820-5335, Fax: (043) 820-5850, Email: byj@ut.ac.kr

Received May 19, 2020; Revised June 22, 2020; Accepted June 22, 2020.

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Abstract

Objectives

The study examined the status on the use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims among university students as well as the diet quality and nutritional status using the nutrition quotient (NQ) according to the use of nutrition labeling and claims.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was conducted on university students (86 males and 131 females) from March to April in 2019 in Chungbuk area.

Results

The percentage of subjects who reported that they recognized nutrition labeling was 80.2% of the total, and 63.8% of them indicated that they used nutrition labeling for their food choices. In addition, 22.6% of the total subjects said that they used nutrition claims. The group of subjects using nutrition labeling showed significantly higher mean scores in balance (P < 0.01), diversity (P < 0.05), moderation (P < 0.01), and dietary behavior (P < 0.001) along with higher mean NQ score (P < 0.001) compared to the group not using nutrition labeling. The group using nutrition claims had significantly higher mean scores in balance (P < 0.001), diversity (P < 0.01), moderation (P < 0.001), and dietary behavior (P < 0.001) as well as total NQ scores (P < 0.001) compared to the group not using nutrition claims. The group of subjects using both nutrition labeling and nutrition claims showed significantly higher mean NQ scores than the group of subjects using either nutrition labeling or nutrition claims (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

In this study, university students' use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims appeared to be related to their diet quality and nutritional status.

Keywords

nutrition labeling; nutrition claims; dietary quality; nutrition quotient; university students

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Use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims of the subjects

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Nutrition quotient (NQ) scores of subjects according to the use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims

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Comparison of Nutrition quotient (NQ) scores among groups according to the use of nutrition labeling and nutrition claims

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