Shandong CDC prepackaged food information query small program use process

In order to understand the nutritional labeling of prepackaged foods on the market, promote and guide food production enterprises to actively carry out the "three reductions" action, and further reduce the residents' intake of salt, edible oil, added sugar, under the guidance of Shandong Provincial Health Commission, Shandong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention designed and developed the "prepackaged food information query applet". "prepackaged food information query applet", is now open to the public.

Enter the home page of Prepackaged Food Information Query, as shown in the figure:

The rotating image at the top includes instructions for the use of the applet and health knowledge tweets, which can be clicked on and viewed.

For example, click on the instructions for using the applet, the page shown in the image.

Next, go back to the home page. There are three function buttons at the bottom: barcode scanning, health guidance, and category finding. Let's tap on each to see them. First, tap Barcode Scan. Align the barcode on the food package.

This identifies the nutrition labeling information of the food,

and displays where the content of the five core nutrients of the food is in the existing database, among similar foods, giving consumers a visual display. The 2021 database is also compared here with the 2014 database to give consumers an idea of the historical changes in the five nutrients.

Next, go back to the home page.

Click on the Health Guidance button to display health guidance articles for people at high risk of chronic disease.

Go back to the home page again and tap on the category lookup.

Selecting a category reveals a number of food products.

Click on the energy, protein, etc. buttons at the top for a sorted lookup of that nutrient

Click on a food item to go to it to see detailed information and analysis of that food item.

Click on Health Knowledge at the bottom of the home page to see more health information: