Table 1.
Composition of national brand (NB) and private brand (PB) ready meal (RM) products, by category, in the sample of 506 RM products (PB, n 91; NB, n 415), South Korea, February–May 2017
| NB | PB | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | n | % | n | % | P value | |
| Refrigerated products | Refrigerated soups/stews | 47 | 11·3 | 48 | 52·7 | <0·001 |
| Refrigerated noodles | 87 | 21·0 | 18 | 19·8 | ||
| Frozen products | Frozen rice/noodles | 77 | 18·6 | 10 | 11·0 | |
| Frozen dumplings | 204 | 49·2 | 15 | 16·5 | ||
| Total | 415 | 100·0 | 91 | 100·0 | ||
P value from Fisher’s exact test; 5 % level of significance was considered.