Enriquecimento nutricional na merenda escolar

Abstract

Good eating habits in childhood is essential for development into adulthood. As a child, metabolism is faster caused by growth, a healthy diet at this stage has the ability to prevent the development of diseases in the future, in addition to offering the nutrients necessary for their growth and development. Faced with the lack found in children who often have their main meal at school, and in it to supply all the daily recommendations in this age group, the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) was developed. This program's main objectives are to contribute to school growth, development and learning. In this article, the objective is the nutritional enrichment of a pre-established menu, foods and ingredients were added that will bring more benefits to the health of these children. For a better acceptance of children, an educational video was produced that aims to demonstrate how the preparation of this menu is done (age group of 7 and 8 years) and a playful theater in which the importance of food consumption for health was presented ( age group of 2 and 3 years). After the video, it was possible to observe a great interest and curiosity of the children in trying the dish and the fruits, the attractive colors and the preparation together were the factors that most influenced this perception, the fruits chosen despite being citrus (having less sugar) they were also easily accepted by the children after the theater.