HUBUNGAN ANTARA PENGETAHUAN MENGENAI LABEL INFORMASI NILAI GIZI DENGAN KEPATUHAN MEMBACA LABEL INFORMASI NILAI GIZI

The prevalence of non-communicable diseases over 15 years in every province in Indonesia tends to increase every year. One of the risk factors is caused by improper lifestyles such as unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity, as well as consumer purchasing and consuming decisions influenced by food labelling. The objective of this research is to find out the relationship between the level of knowledge about nutrition facts labels and the degree of compliance in reading nutritional facts labels at Ternate State High School 8. The research is observational and analytical with a cross-sectional approach. The research was conducted at the 8th State High School of Ternate in May-June 2024. The study sample consisted of 296 participants using stratified random sampling. The sample was then analyzed using the Spearman correlation test. Data were collected using primary data with a questionnaire. Results from 296 samples: mostly female (58.4%), parent income ≥Rp.3.200,000 (75.3%), level of knowledge of good nutrition (50.3%), and level of compliance with reading label information on average nutritional values (73%). Based on the results of bivariate analysis, the p-value is 0.519 (p>0,05) and the correlation coefficient (r) is 0.038. There is no significant correlation between knowledge of nutritional information labels and compliance with reading the nutrition information label.