Respondents across the economic classes in Kolkata are in the habit of buying prepackaged foods. Although almost all of them claimed to use the label information for food-purchasing decisions, many check for information related to shelf life and not nutrition. Adolescent consumers think that nutrition information displayed on the labels is too technical to understand and that symbols may be more easily recalled. However, the symbols have a relatively better recall value among them. This may calls for the need to revisit text-based nutrition labeling