Table 4.

Provision of ingredients lists, Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) labels and claims on the packages of healthier and less healthy Thai ready-to-eat packaged food products (n 4689), March 2015

	Healthier (n 432)		Less healthy (n 4257)
Component	n	%	n	%	P value*
Ingredients list
Yes	431	99·8	4249	99·8	0·844
No	1	0·2	8	0·2
GDA label†
Yes	33	7·6	2451	57·6	<0·001
No	399	92·4	1806	42·4
Claims‡
Yes	294	68·1	1219	28·6	<0·001
Nutrition claims	269	62·3	1014	23·8
Health claims	94	21·8	195	4·6
Other claims	5	1·2	89	2·1
No	138	31·9	3038	71·4

^*The χ ² test was used to compare between healthy and less healthy categories.

^†Refers to GDA label in compliance with related regulations.

^‡One product can carry more than one type of claim, so summation of the percentage of nutrition, health and other claims can exceed 100 %.