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Nutrition claim refers to the description and explanation of the nutritional characteristics of food, including
Nutritional claim refers to the description and explanation of the nutritional characteristics of food, including nutritional component claim and comparative claim.

I. Overview of Nutrition Labeling

Nutrition label is the most important part of prepackaged foods label, which mainly includes a tabular "table of nutrients", and on this basis, it is used to explain the level and function of nutrients.

Nutrient composition table is the core of nutrition label, and it is a normative table containing the name, content and percentage of food nutrients in nutrient reference values (NRV).

Second, the norms and standards of nutrition and nutritional components

Nutrition claim is a description and statement of the nutritional characteristics of food. Nutrition claim is a popular description of the content level of nutrients in a language that consumers can better understand after the content value in the nutrient composition table reaches certain requirements stipulated by China.

There is also a part of the nutrition label called "nutritional component function claim". The function claim of nutritional ingredients refers to the use of specific terms to explain that a nutritional ingredient can maintain the normal growth and development of human body and normal physiological functions.

Summary and function of food nutritional efficacy

First, the nutritional efficacy of food

The nutritional efficacy and function of food can be divided into providing energy, maintaining life activities, maintaining physiological functions and preventing diseases. Various foods have different nutritional components and functions. Common nutrients include carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins and minerals.

Second, the role

1, providing energy

Carbohydrate, fat and protein in food are the energy sources of human body, among which carbohydrate and fat are the main energy sources.

2. Life-sustaining activities

Protein is the foundation of human life activities, and participates in physiological processes such as tissue repair, cell renewal and enzyme synthesis.

3. Maintain physiological function

Vitamins and minerals play an important role in maintaining human physiological functions.

4. Disease prevention

A reasonable diet can help prevent some diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and so on. Proper intake of balanced nutrients helps to enhance immunity and maintain good health.