Salt Used for the National School Nutrition Program (NSNP) in Rural Schools of Limpopo Province, South Africa, has Adequate Levels of Iodine

Table 4

General questions on the salt fortification.

Description of questions	Mopani District		Vhembe District
	N	%	N	%
Where do you usually buy or obtain the salt that is used for food in your house?
Purchase in a shop such as Pick ‘n Pay, Shoprite, Spar, and general store	135	67.5	124	78
Agricultural coarse salt obtained from a farmer, employer, cooperation, or elsewhere	2	1	1	0.6
Spaza shop	59	29.5	18	11.3
Informal sector: street vendor or hawker and a bag of maize meal	4	2	14	8.2
Directly from a salt producer	0	0	2	1.3
Where do you get salt if the salt used at school ran out before the service provider delivers the next batch?
Buy at a nearby shop/Spaza	15	7.5	3	1.9
Fetch salt at home	1	0.5	1	0.6
Do not add salt	2	1	1	0.6
Never run out of salt	182	91	15	96.9
Do you add more salt to your food because the salt is iodated?
Yes	13	6.5	0	0
No	122	61	67	42.1
Do not know	6	3	3	1.9
Do not know what iodated salt is	59	29.5	89	56
Do you have any concerns about iodine being added to table salt?
Yes	17	8.5	3	1.9
No	107	53.5	50	31.4
Unsure	13	6.5	20	12.6
Do not know what iodine is	63	31.5	86	54.1
In what kind of container do you store salt in the kitchen?
Plastic bag in which the salt was bought	82	41	56	35.2
Carton box	7	3.5	25	15.7
Rigid plastic container with holes at the top	50	25	11	6.9
Open porcelain, wooden, plastic, or metal container with or without a lid	61	30.5	67	42.1
How do you know the salt is Iodised?
Plastic bag/container with iodised salt written on it	50	25	47	29.6
Salt having brown colour	4	2	3	1.9
Salt with pure white colour	34	17	27	17
Do not know	112	56	82	51.6
When do you add iodised salt to food?
While cooking	101	50.5	71	44.6
Start cooking with salt	90	45	88	55.3
While eating	3	1.5	0	0
Do not know	6	3	0	0