In Korea, there are 3 kinds of foods, which are foods (general), health foods (HFF) and foods with function claims (FFC). Of the 3, the FFC was introduced and implemented last. Therefore, the consumers are not well aware of FFC and confusing it and HFF. To investigate the consumers' awareness on the FFC, the Korean National Council of Consumer Organizations (KNCCO) conducted a nationwide survey by collecting 1,000 people (including 300 opinion leaders from the National Communication Group) from

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... March 31 to April 11, 2022. 1 Of the entire respondents, 617 people gave valid responses, of which analysis gave the following results: 65.3% (403 people) said "I don't know" and 34.7% (214 people) said "I'm aware of ". The ratio of the former group was much higher than that of the latter by 30.6%. The results indicate that about two-thirds of the population do not know the FFC. The 214 people who know the FFC were asked the question, "Can you tell the difference between the FCC and HFF?" and the analysis of the answers gave the following the results: 182 people (85.1%) said "I know it" (26%, I know very well; 58.9%, I know) and 12 people (5.6%) said "I don't know it (1.9%, I don't know completely; 3.7%, I don't know). Most of them who are aware of FFC can distinguish FFC from HFF.