Tingkat Pengetahuan dan Sikap Gizi Konsumen Susu UHT Kemasan di Kabupaten Lamongan

Abstract

Susu UHT merupakan salah satu komoditas pangan yang berperan penting dalam pemenuhan sumber gizi kalsium. Praktik konsumsi susu UHT dapat dipengaruhi oleh pengetahuan gizi konsumen. Tujuan umum penelitian adalah menganalisis hubungan antara pengetahuan gizi dan karakteristik konsumen susu UHT di Kabupaten Lamongan serta hubungan antara pengetahuan gizi dengan sikap gizi konsumen. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan berdasarkan perhitungan rumus slovin dan didapat jumlah 100 orang responden. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif dan dilakukan uji korelasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan sebanyak 77% responden memiliki pengetahuan gizi yang cukup. Sikap gizi responden menunjukkan hasil 63% responden memiliki sikap gizi cukup. Kesimpulan hasil penelitian adalah terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara variabel karakteristik pendidikan dan pekerjaan responden dengan pengetahuan gizi. Hasil uji hubungan antara pengetahuan gizi dan sikap gizi menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan sangat signifikan dan searah antara pengetahuan gizi dengan sikap gizi. Kata kunci : pengetahuan gizi, sikap gizi, susu UHT kemasan

UHT milk is a food commodity that plays an important role in fulfilling calcium nutritional sources. UHT milk consumption practices can be influenced by consumer nutritional knowledge. The general objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between nutritional knowledge and the characteristics of UHT milk consumers in Lamongan Regency and the relationship between nutritional knowledge and consumer nutritional attitudes. Sampling was carried out based on the calculation of the Slovin formula and obtained the number of 100 respondents. Data were analyzed descriptively and correlation test was performed. The results obtained as many as 77% of respondents have sufficient knowledge of nutrition. The nutritional attitude of the respondents showed that 63% of the respondents had adequate nutrition attitudes. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant relationship between the education variable and the job characteristics of the respondents and their knowledge of nutrition. The test results of the relationship between nutritional knowledge and nutritional attitudes showed that there was a very significant and direct relationship between nutritional knowledge and nutritional attitudes. Keywords: nutritional attitude, nutritional knowledge, packaged UHT milk