Ms. He, a reader from Shandong Province, asked: We often see claims such as "high calcium" and "low fat" in food packaging, are these random labels for enterprises?
The expert group of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center answered that "high calcium" and "low fat" are nutritional claims, describing and declaring the nutritional characteristics of food. All food products can not be arbitrarily claimed, only if they meet the requirements of our national standards can be claimed accordingly. According to our country’s standards, if a mineral is claimed to be "rich" or "high", the content of the mineral in every 100 grams of food should be more than 30% NRV, or 15% NRV in every 100 milliliters of food, or 10% NRV in every 420 kilocokes.
The NRV of calcium is 800 mg. Therefore, for liquid milk, it can be called "high calcium milk" if the content of calcium in milk is more than 120 mg per 100 ml. Products with fat content less than 3g/100g (or 1.5g/100ml) can be called "low fat". At present, the fat content of low fat milk on the market is generally 0.5%~1%. When the fat content of products is less than 0.5%, it can be called "skim milk", and because the fat content is too low, the fat item should be labeled as "0". "Low sugar" means that the sugar content in 100 grams or every 100 milliliters of food is less than 5 grams, and "sugar free" means that the sugar content in every 100 grams or every 100 milliliters of food is equal to or less than 0.5 grams. Sugar is one of the carbohydrates. At this time, there are two situations in the nutrient composition table of the product: one is marked 0 directly for the carbohydrate content, the other is marked 0 for the carbohydrate content, and at the same time marked 0 separately for the sugar content. When the energy in food is less than 17 kJ/100 g (solid) or 100 ml (liquid), the claim of "zero energy" can be made. That is to say, a beverage labeled "0 energy" does not mean that there is really no energy in the beverage. However, due to its low content, its intake has little impact on the human body, so it is labeled "0".
Source：www.people.com.cn
