Incheon City Selects 19 Bakeries Selling 'Reduced Sugar Healthy Bread'

Kim Seok-cheol, Director of Health and Hygiene Bureau of Incheon City (second from the left), is attaching a certification plaque at a bakery reducing sugar content.
[Photo by Incheon City]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] On the 19th, Incheon City announced that it has selected 19 bakeries selling 'healthy bread' with reduced sugar content.

By region, there are 9 in Namdong-gu, 3 in Seo-gu, 2 each in Yeonsu and Bupyeong-gu, and 1 each in Dong, Michuhol, and Gyeyang-gu.

The city selected bakeries with reduced sugar content through technical support and on-site evaluations to establish a distribution base for healthy bread.

These bakeries will be provided with reduced sugar signage and bakery food boxes for selling reduced sugar bread, and will also receive promotional and marketing support such as being introduced on the Incheon Tour website.

Incheon City is the first in the nation to promote a sugar reduction project targeting small-scale bakery bread products. This is due to the high rates of diabetes diagnosis and obesity among Incheon citizens.

According to the '2021 Regional Health Statistics' released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the diabetes diagnosis rate for those aged 30 and over in Incheon was 9.8%, the highest among the 17 metropolitan cities and provinces nationwide. The obesity rate (self-reported) also reached 34.5%, ranking second nationwide.

An Incheon City official stated, "We hope to establish a foundation for the production and sale of healthy bread to secure citizens' health rights while providing small-scale bakeries with opportunities to enhance their technical competitiveness."

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