You're going to get diabetes while trying to keep your knees healthy. "I need to check liquid-type joint dry food and sugar content."

■ Broadcast: YTN Radio FM 94.5 (09:00-10:00)
■ Host: Reporter Cho Tae-hyun
■ Air date: December 20, 2024 (Friday)
■ Talk: Lee Jung-bin, head of the Food Microbiology Team of the Korea Consumer Agency's Testing and Inspection Bureau

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◆ Announcer Park Sang-yeon (hereinafter referred to as Park Sang-yeon): It's time for Smart Consumer Life to deliver useful information that can make you a smart consumer. As we enter an aging society, health functional foods that can help joint and cartilage health are popular. Accordingly, the Korea Consumer Agency tested the quality and safety of joint health functional foods and investigated prices. Let's talk with Lee Jung-bin, head of the Food Microbiology Team of the Korea Consumer Agency's Testing and Inspection Bureau. Team leader, you're here, right? I think there are a lot of people who eat health functional foods to take care of joint health. What is the recommended intake for this product?

◇ Lee Jung-bin, Team Leader of the Food Microbiology Team of the Korea Consumer Agency Test and Inspection Bureau (hereinafter Lee Jung-bin): MSM health functional food is a health functional food that can help joint and cartilage health. MSM, a functional ingredient for joint health, is a bio-available organic sulfur compound contained in meat and fish and is one of the functional raw materials that can help joint or cartilage health.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: For MSM products on the market, did you meet the daily intake standard?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: As a result of testing the content of functional ingredients of 13 MSM products on the market, the MSM content per day met the health functional food standard of 1,500mg to 2,000mg.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Many people take nutritional supplements at once. For those who take vitamin products together, I need to check MSM products and ingredients?(What is the vitamin content in MSM products on the market?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: Of the 13 products surveyed, 7 contained only MSM ingredients, and 6 other products contained vitamin D (5) and calcium (1) along with MSM. According to a consumer survey, 79% of consumers consume other health functional foods such as vitamins along with MSM products, so it is necessary to carefully check the product markings to avoid overlapping or excessive intake of vitamin D and calcium.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Liquid products sometimes contain sugars. Nutritional ingredients. I need to check.

◇ Lee Jung-bin: MSM liquid products containing raw materials such as licorice, liquid fructose, and honey contained 5g to 8g of sugars per day intake. This is small, 5% to 8% of the daily nutritional content standard, but consumers who needed to control sugar intake needed to check the nutritional content when purchasing products.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Does the size of the pill, the number of pills you need to take, and the product vary?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: The size of tablets that can affect the convenience of intake, such as swallowing, varies by product up to twice as much, and the number of tablets required per day also varies by product.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Did it break down well in your body when you took MSS products?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: In the case of refined products, all the results of the decomposition suitability test to ensure that they are well dissolved and decomposed in the digestive system met the relevant criteria.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: You may be exposed to heavy metal microorganisms during the product manufacturing process. What was the result of the safety test?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: All products met relevant standards in safety tests such as heavy metals (lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury) and microorganisms (coliform and bacterial water) that can be contaminated during manufacturing and processing.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: But in the case of certain products, the actual content is different from the information displayed on the surface, so it needed to be corrected, right?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: According to the results of the product labeling survey, the actual sugar content is different from the indicated value and other raw materials such as calcium, red ginseng concentrate, and antlers extract are displayed and advertised on the main surface, which are sometimes not suitable for related standards.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: What was the price difference between the products?

◇ Lee Jung-bin: The price of MSM products differed by 2.1 times from KRW 150 to KRW 1,167 per day for refined products, and from KRW 1,333 to KRW 2,767 for liquid products.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Lastly, please let me know if there are any points I should be aware of when purchasing joint health functional foods.

◇ Lee Jung-bin: When purchasing joint health functional foods, you must first check the functional ingredients. In addition to MSM, functional raw materials that can help joint and cartilage health include glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, mucodasaccharide, and protein. In addition, it is recommended to carefully check the product markings such as nutritional ingredients table, raw materials, precautions for consumption, and food history tracking management numbers that contain nutritional ingredients such as functional ingredients and sugars.

◆ Park Sang-yeon: Thank you for your words today. Thank you! I was Lee Jung-bin, team leader of the Food Microbiology Team of the Test and Inspection Bureau.

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