Table 4.
Number of national brand (NB) and private brand (PB) ready meal (RM) products for which front-of-pack nutrients meet green traffic-light labelling cut-offs, by category, in the sample of 506 RM products (PB, n 91; NB, n 415), South Korea, February–May 2017
| None | One nutrient | Two nutrients | Three nutrients | Four nutrients | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Refrigerated soups/stews | NB | 3 | 6·4 | 11 | 23·4 | 14 | 29·8 | 19 | 40·4 | 0 | 0·0 | 47 | 100 |
| PB | 16 | 33·3 | 11 | 22·9 | 10 | 20·8 | 10 | 20·8 | 1 | 2·1 | 48 | 100 | |
| Refrigerated noodles | NB | 24 | 27·6 | 25 | 28·7 | 37 | 42·5 | 1 | 1·1 | 0 | 0·0 | 87 | 100 |
| PB | 4 | 22·2 | 5 | 27·8 | 9 | 50·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 18 | 100 | |
| Frozen rice/noodles | NB | 41 | 53·2 | 26 | 33·8 | 10 | 13·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 77 | 100 |
| PB | 0 | 0·0 | 4 | 40·0 | 6 | 60·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 10 | 100 | |
| Frozen dumplings | NB | 114 | 55·9 | 84 | 41·2 | 6 | 2·9 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 204 | 100 |
| PB | 12 | 80·0 | 2 | 13·3 | 1 | 6·7 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | 15 | 100 | |
The nutritional evaluation per serving is according to current Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety guidelines on front-of-pack nutrition labelling(37); this is available only for fat, Na, sugar and saturated fat. Green traffic-light labelling refers to low, amber traffic-light labelling refers to medium and red traffic-light labelling refers high content of the nutrient.