抄録
They say it is difficult to teach food additives in homemaking. To investigate that reason, a questionaire was conducted on elementary school children and junior and senior high school students in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The following results were obtained. 1. There were large differences in knowledge of food additives between boys and girls in junior and senior high schools; girls know of food additives more than boys. 2. As they grew older, a large percent of girls had some misgivings about the safety of food additives, but only about half of the boys had. 3. For girls, learning food additives in elementary and junior high homemaking had important meaning on their consciousness of food additives.
