Implementação de alimentos funcionais na alimentação das crianças nas creches de São João da Boa Vista

Abstract

A healthy diet is of great importance for the human being, physiologically the act of eating involves several factors and provides an effective food health. In childhood, children are in the development phase, where it is important to have a balanced diet and nutritious. Therefore, in view of the need to insert a healthy diet in children's lives, the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) was developed, which provides greater well-being, growth and development for better school performance and lower risk of school problems. health in the future. The objective of the study was to provide a healthy diet on the pre-established menu, with specific functional and bioactive foods with beneficial properties for health. The Facial Hedonic Scale model applied to schoolchildren and approved by the PNAE was used as an acceptability test during the tasting, and an educational video was also made demonstrating the importance of eating healthy foods, including salad, normally rejected by children. It was observed that after the changes made to the pre-established menu, a positive result was obtained because it added greater nutritional value to the children's meals, making it more attractive, where the presentation and distribution of the dish was visible, for the children's audience. According to the age group from 2 to 6 years, the easier the way of swallowing and chewing food, the more pleasant the meal becomes, meeting the consumption expectations of this public.