Table 2.

Practices on the label reading frequency and attention paid to label contents among adolescents

Practices	Always	Most	Sometimes	Not at all
	%	of the time %	%	%
Frequency of reading labelsa	40.8	33.8	23.7	1.7
Attention paid to contentsb
Brand name	24.6	50.1	20.5	4.9
Price	34.7	50.3	12.0	3.0
Expiry date	93.6	5.4	0.4	0.6
Manufactured date	55.2	26.6	13.7	4.5
Serving amount	7.5	22.8	47.5	22.2
Batch number	2.6	8.7	32	56.7
Nutrition information	38.4	43.7	13.2	4.7
Country of manufacture	9.2	34.7	37.8	18.3
Storage instructions	21.5	41.7	21.3	15.5
Medical certification	28.8	38.0	20.2	13.0
Attractiveness of the label	6.2	22.4	33.7	37.7
Readability of the label	30.3	41.8	20.5	7.4

^a N = 542 (the total number of participants who responded)

^b N = 533 (out of the total number of participants responded, 9 students who never read food labels were excluded)