What did we learn about food consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil?

• Autor(a) principal: Lemes, Natália Cristaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Moreno, Karyne Garcia Tafarelo, Luz, Verônica Gronau, Rocha, Liane Murari
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/san/article/view/8671092
• topic: Ingestão de alimentos; Dieta; Comportamento alimentar; Infecções por coronavírus; COVID-19; Eating; Diet; Feeding behavior; Coronavirus infections; COVID-19; La ingesta de alimentos; Dieta; Comportamiento alimenticio; Infecciones por coronavirus; COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the population’s diet habits. Understanding the changes that occurred in this period can help in the elaboration of public policies, considering the need for an organization of society for social and economic restructuring. Thus, this study aims to investigate changes in the eating habits of adults and the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, enphasizing some weak points of the reserarch and indicating where we should look after the pandemic. This is a systematic review, whose searches were carried out on May 4, 2021 in the Embase, Scopus, MEDLINE (via Pubmed), Web of Science, Psycinfo and Virtual Health Library (BVS) databases. All steps were performed independently by three reviewers. Twelve studies were included. The results indicated a reduction in the consumption of fruits and vegetables and an increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods, the use of delivery, the number of meals and the preparation of homemade meals. Food was influenced by psychological factors. There was also an increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages and unhealthy lifestyle habits, such as increased physical inactivity and smoking. These data may help in the elaboration of control and treatment measures, considering the health consequences.