How to read the five fields on the back of a ginseng box

The food type of KOGIN Red Ginseng Stick and KOGIN Black Ginseng Stick is liquid tea. The words red ginseng or black ginseng in the product name do not change that classification.

The food type is the field you find before the others on the package. Once this one is settled, the remaining fields can be read on the same basis.

Red is red ginseng powder (saponin 40 mg/g or more, Korean origin) 15% and purified water. Black adds fructooligosaccharide, xanthan gum, and purified water to black ginseng powder (saponin 40 mg/g or more, Korean origin) 12%.

The 'Korean origin' inside the parentheses is the origin marking of the powder raw material. It is a different piece of information from where the company address is, so please do not narrow down the growing region on the basis of the address.

Both products are 12 g per stick, 10 sticks per box, 120 g in total. If you check the weight of one stick and the number of sticks inside the box together, it reduces the risk of comparing products with different compositions as if they were the same.

Read the nutrition information on the basis of one stick. Red is 5 kcal and 1 g of carbohydrate per stick. Black is 10 kcal, 2 g of carbohydrate, and 1 g of sugars per stick.

It is safer not to add the figures on the front of the box to the per-stick figures on your own. There are items where the labeling does not match, and we are checking them, so we do not describe them until they are confirmed.

The manufacturer and the seller are listed separately on the box. Hongbaek Agricultural Company Corporation (농업회사법인 주식회사 홍백) is shown as the seller of these two products.

Since the roles are separate, it is more accurate not to read the place that sells it as the place that made the finished product. Look at the two fields separately.

• Compare only figures that share the same unit and the same basis.
• Do not rank products by a single percentage.
• Do not fill in a basis or a grade that is not on the box.
• If the package labeling changes, copy the box in your hand again instead of relying on an old note.

The five fields on the back of the box are not placed at random. They run from a broad range to a narrow one. You settle what kind of product this is, then what it is made of, how much it holds, what values are attached to one stick, and last who makes it and who sells it.

If you start in the middle, you see numbers without the context established by the preceding fields. That is why we ask you to start with the opening field on the back rather than the impression made by the front.

The place where people most often go wrong in the ingredient name field is the parentheses. What is written in the parentheses after red ginseng powder describes that powder, not the finished product.

The value 40 mg/g saponin or more and the origin marking 'Korean origin' are both explanations attached to the powder raw material. If you look at where the parentheses open and where they close, you can tell what the words inside them belong to.

It is more accurate not to read the value inside the parentheses as a figure for one finished stick.

If you are comparing several products, it helps to copy the five fields of each box into the same format. Moving between them by eye alone makes it easy to mix up which box a figure came from.

Even if you have practiced reading the five fields, in the end, if all you have in your hand is a single stick, the full label is not available. A single stick carries nowhere near as much labeling as the box.

So when you need to check something, you have to find the box. If you have thrown the box away, there is no way to recover most of the five fields. Since it takes up little space, we suggest keeping even the part that carries the labeling surface.

The values we give in this article are also copied from the labeling we can confirm at present. When you need to check something, always look at the box in your hand.

• Package labeling can change when a product is revised.
• A note you copied earlier may differ from the box you have now.
• A label photo seen online is not guaranteed to be current.
• The most accurate basis is the box you are holding now.

The five fields are the frame of the labeling, but the box prints other guidance as well. The intake amount, the storage method, and the cautions are among them.

For both KOGIN Red and Black, store at room temperature in a cool place away from direct sunlight. Drink it as soon as you open it, do not put the pack in the microwave as it is, and take care that the edge of the stick does not cut your hand. Once you have read all five fields, we suggest running your eye over this part as well.

There are questions that do not get an answer even when you have read all five fields without missing anything. How long to take it for, when to take it, and whether it suits you are among them.

These are not items to be marked on the box, so they do not appear however carefully you read. When the answer is not in what you have read, asking a medical professional is quicker than looking at the box more closely.

You do not have to read the five fields from the beginning to the end every time. Which fields you need depends on what you are wondering about now.

To check for ginseng if you are sensitive to it, look at the ingredient name field. To count the remaining sticks, use the net content field; to check who made the product, use the final field. Review the whole label when you open the box, then refer to the fields you need.

Even so, on a box you have just opened, we suggest reading the ingredient name field all the way to the end. For people who are sensitive to ginseng or need to avoid a particular ingredient, this single field can matter more than the other four fields together. Red has two items and Black has four, so it does not take long.

This article guides the order for reading the five fields on the back of the box. It does not deal with judgments outside the labeling.

• Reading the labels of other companies' products: we do not do that.
• Blending ratios that are not printed: they are not on the box.
• An intake plan for an individual: that needs to be checked with a qualified professional.

For Red, the ingredient name lists red ginseng powder 15% and purified water, and the ginseng blending ratio lists 100% red ginseng root body. For Black, the ingredient name lists black ginseng powder 12%, fructooligosaccharide, xanthan gum, and purified water, and the ginseng blending ratio is 100% black ginseng root body.

When copying the ingredient labeling, do not replace the ingredient list with the blending ratio alone. Writing just '100% black ginseng root body' leaves out Black's three other ingredients. Copy the entire ingredient list, including the parentheses, and record the ginseng blending ratio separately with its field name.

The 12 g x 10 sticks, total 120 g in the net content field is the marking for one inner box inside the outer box. The sales item is one large outer box holding three of those inner boxes, 30 sticks and 360 g in total. When you copy the net content down, write down which box you read it from as well.

The product manufacturing report number on the box is 20080467100196 for Red and 20080467100197 for Black. When you record the two products side by side, put each number under its product name. Even when the weight of a stick and the number of sticks per inner box are the same, the number in this box is different for each product.