Wuhan, Hubei: Food safety enters the campus engineer to teach elementary school students to read labels and choose food

Our reporter Xiong Jiaming correspondent Hu Haibo

"Some foods are labeled as sugar-free, why do they taste sweet?" "Sweetness is not necessarily added sugar.

On the same day, in the quality knowledge publicity activity of "Food Safety Entering Campus" of Wuhan Quality Inspection Institute, after Li Jun explained to the students of the school the knowledge of choosing food by reading labels, the students raised their hands enthusiastically to ask questions, and Li Jun answered them one by one

"My mother said that some breads are too high in fat, and eating too much is bad for the stomach.

What can I learn about a food from a label? Li Jun said that the basic information of food can be learned through food labels, such as food name, ingredient list, net content, producer and address, production date, shelf life, storage conditions, production license number, product implementation standard number, nutritional content, whether Irradiation, genetically modified or not, edible method, allergy information,

Li Jun said: "Food labels protect consumers' right to know and choose.

During the explanation, Li Jun used pictures one by one to explain how to read labels and select foods in simple and easy-to-understand language based on the potato chips, spicy strips, drinks, etc.

Ma Zichen, a student of the school, said: "After listening to the lectures by experts, I will pay more attention to the specific content of nutrients in food labels in the future.

Zhang Jie, deputy principal of Wuhan Experimental Boya No.

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