Objective: To study reading status of nutrition label of residents in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen and Jinan, and to analyze factors associated with nutrition label reading.
Methods: Two communities were chosed in each city. 200 residents in every community were surveyed by trained doctors and 1993 residents were surveryed totally. The SPSS 16.0 statistical software was used for data analysis.
Results: Residents reading nutrition label accounted for 40.54%. The results of multi-variate Logistic regression showed that following factors were significant associated with the effect (P < 0.05), sex, age, nutrition-related knowledge, family number, attitude to nutrition knowledge, understanding of nutrition label, health, frequency of shopping and focus on food.
Conclusion: The level of reading of nutrition label of the residents is low. It is necessary to implement nutrition and health education aimed at promoting residents' knowledge and reading of food nutrition labeling.