Business Quiz: Understanding Product Labels

Identify the meaning of the product. Then, try to put it on the correct structure of the product. Penjelasan There are some generic structures of label. There is a product’s name which is used to tell about the brand or the name of the product. Then there is an ingredient to tell about the compositions or ingredients of the product. In the content or amount, we can know the nutrition supplement of the product, the content, or the amount of the product.And the additional information is used to inform some information related to the product. The picture “Yummy Choco” tells us that it is the name of the product. So the appropriate structure is the “Product's name”.

The main purpose of a label is to provide detailed information about the product. Labels typically contain important details such as ingredients, nutritional information, usage instructions, warnings, and other relevant information that helps consumers make informed decisions about the product. Labels are designed to provide transparency and ensure that consumers have access to all the necessary information they need to understand the product before making a purchase.

We can find label in foods and drinks and also in medicine. Label is used to help people to know the product itself.

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Label contains all information about the product, start from the composition or the ingredients of the product, the expired date, the content or amount, and some other information. By seeing the label, we don’t need to predict what kind of product, the compositions, and others. So the purpose of label is to give detail information about the product itself.

Read carefully the above label. Understand the meaning of the label, and then choose the best answer that matches to the statement. Penjelasan In liquid medicine, if there is a label written “Shake Well”, it means that we have to shake the medicine first before we drink it, because sometimes the different materials in the liquid medicine are separated. So we need to shake it first in order the medicine works well. The best answer is the answer “We have to shake well before use.”

The question is asking about the expired date of the product. Find the information about the expired date on the label above. Penjelasan We can see the expired date of the product from the information available on the label. From the information “Best before: May 2020”, it means that the product can be used or valid until May 2020 and we can’t use it anymore after May 2020. So the best answer is we can use the product “not more than May 2020”

Identify the meaning of the product. One of them is the name of the product, and the others are just the additional information about the product. Penjelasan The name of the product is “Jasmina Tea”. The other answer is not correct because “tea bag” is the shape of the product that is the tea by using bag. Then “original tea” is the information that the product is the real tea. And “since 1988” is the date of the product established.

Remember the generic structures of label. Then, identify the answers whether it is included in label or not.

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There are some generic structures of label; those are the name of the product, the composition or the ingredients of the product, the expired date, the content or amount, and some additional information. By seeing the label, we don’t need to predict what kind of product, the compositions, and others. So the purpose of label is to give detail information about the product itself.

The question is asking about how to store the product. Find the information about the store information on the label above. Penjelasan The question is asking about the way to store the medicine. From the label, we know that the product has to be store away from heat, direct light and moisture, because it will danger the medicine. We have to keep it away also from the children, so they can’t play with the medicine. So, the correct answer is that we have to make it stay away from the children reach.

Read carefully the above label. Understand the meaning of the label, and then match the information in the left with the generic structure in the left. Penjelasan BB or best before is usually used to show the expired date (1-D). Then Wong Baghus Ketchup is the name of the product (2-A). Then the tomato concentrate, corn syrup, vinegar, salt, garlic powder, and herb extracts are the composition of the product (3-B). And the last, store in a cool or dry places is the additional information (4-C). The correct answer is (1-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4-C)

The given correct answer suggests that the product can be used until May 2020. This information is likely mentioned in the text, indicating an expiration date or a specific timeframe until which the product remains usable.

Read carefully the above label. Find the synonym of the word “cure” in the label, and then you will find the information and the answer. Penjelasan The question is asking about the uses of the product. The word cure in the question has the same meaning with the word relieves in the label. Based on the label, we can find the information that the product can cure minor aches and pains like cough, flu, runny nose and congestion. The correct answer is the medicine can be used to cure “minor aches”

Read carefully the above label. Find the word contraindication then understand the information.

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In contraindication, there is some information about the product. One of them is see the leaflet inside. This sentence means that if we want to know more information about contraindication, we should open and read the leaflet located inside the product.
So to know more information about the contraindication we should “read the leaflet inside”.

We can find food label by analyzing the product one by one. Some of them are drinks product and medicine product.

The product categorized as food labels are breads, cakes, noodles, snacks, food-stuff, and meals. Meanwhile, traditional drinks, food supplement, syrup, energy drinks and tea bags are categorized as drinks and medicine.
So the correct answer is the option “breads, cakes, noodles”

The question is asking about the information of why the diabetics are not allowed to consume this medicine. Find the word diabetics on the label. Penjelasan We can find the information about diabetic in contraindication. Based on the information on the contraindication, the diabetic sufferer can’t consume this medicine because it can cause adverse effects. So the best answer is the option “it can cause adverse effects”

The question is asking about the synonym of the words “store away”. Some of the answers have the same meaning and do not the correct answer. Penjelasan The words store away from heat means that we should not store the product in the heat. The question is asking about the synonym of the words store away. The best word replaced the word “store away” is “avoid”. The words “place”, ”save” and ”keep” have almost the same meaning with store.

Read carefully the above activity. Remember the steps of making label and the activities in every steps of how to make label.

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There are some steps of how to make label. First is choosing the product’s name as the brand, then provide the content, and the last is design the Label. In choosing the product’s name, choose the brand that represents our product. Then in providing the content, put all detail information of the product here. And the last, in designing the label, we can use some pictures, arrange the lay out or the display of the label, coloring and so on. Based on the above activities, collecting some pictures belong to the step of designing the label.

The question is asking about the information of how to know the complete information. Find the similar word of the question on the label above. Penjelasan The question is asking if we want to know the complete information. See the label and you will find the words further information. The words have the same meaning with the complete information. So we can see the complete information from the insert leaflet.

Remember the information we can find in drinks label. Then, find your answer. Penjelasan We can find some information in drink labels. We can see the product’s name, the ingredients, supplement facts of the products, the date of expired, and also some additional information. Contraindication is the information we can find in medicine. So the correct answer is “contraindication”

The question is asking about the expired date of the product. Find the information about the date on the label above. Penjelasan The question is asking about the expired date of the product. From the label above, we can find that the expired date is on the statement “Discard after 10/11/17”. It means that the product can be used not more than the date that is 11 October 2017. The pattern of the English date is mm/dd/yy or month/day/year. So the medicine is better to be used before 11 October 2017.