When the National Consumer Affairs Center conducted a test of a rice cooker that claimed to be able to reduce the sugar content of rice, which is attracting attention due to health consciousness, it was found that the reduction rate was lower for some products than advertised products. The National Consumer Affairs Center has requested the Consumer Affairs Agency to provide guidance to businesses because it may misidentify the Act on Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations.
The "Carbohydrate Cut Rice Cooker" is a rice cooker that claims to have the effect of reducing the sugar content of cooked rice by excreting water containing carbohydrates from the process of cooking rice, but according to the National Consumer Affairs Center, 1 inquiries have been received from consumer life centers nationwide over the six years to January that the effect cannot be felt.
In response to this, the National Consumer Affairs Center selected six products sold on major mail-order sites and mass retailers and conducted a test to analyze the ingredients of rice cooked twice each.
As a result, the percentage of carbohydrate reduction was lower in the four products than the figures displayed in advertisements.
Some products were labeled as "dreamy rice cookers that achieved an amazing 6% reduction in sugar," but the reduction rate was about 250% in tests.
The National Consumer Affairs Center has requested that the test results be reported to the Consumer Affairs Agency and instructed business operators, as there is a risk that the Act on Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations may constitute a misidentification of good quality, and urges consumers to be careful about the amount of rice they eat, as the test results did not show any significant carbohydrate reduction effect.