الملصقات الغذائية كمصدر للمعلومات الصحية : دراسة حالة على طلبة المرحلة الجامعية الأولى بجامعة الوادي الجديد

Abstract EN

Food labels are an important source of information about the nutrients contained in food for a particular product, especially since most food companies use advertising to promote their products, especially the poster, which is the most widely traded because of its importance in developing the communication and aesthetic awareness of the recipient (consumer).

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of food labels in enabling undergraduate students at New Valley University to identify healthy and unhealthy foods through their knowledge of the quality and safety of the food they eat, and linking this knowledge to the level of its actual application.

The study relied on the descriptive approach as a general framework, and a method The case study as one of the methods of the descriptive approach, by applying a questionnaire to a sample of (242) male and female students, and the study found that 95.45%, of undergraduate students at New Valley University buy food products, but 80.99%, of them read food labels before Purchasing food products, as it affects the process of students choosing food products by 93.80%, and the Internet ranked first as a source for teachers.

The health benefits of food products were 42.56%, for students, then reading food labels by 21.90%, friends by 16.12%, and television programs by 13.22%, and the expiry date was the most prominent and most useful elements of food labels for students by 53.30%, and the producing company had the least benefit with a percentage 1.24%.