Evaluation of the acceptability of a healthy snack in two public schools

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Thamires Castro da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Costa, Rosileuda Marques de Souza da, Campos, Eydlane do Rosário Costa, Mendonça, Xaene Maria Fernandes Duarte de, Gomes, Réia Sílvia Lemos da Costa e Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/17852
• topic: Food and nutrition education; Tasting; School teaching.; Educación alimentaria y nutricional; Saboreo; Enseñanza escolar.; Educação alimentar e nutricional; Degustação; Ensino escolar.

Objective: Encourage the practice of healthy eating habits based on active teaching-learning methodologies with elementary school students from two municipal schools in Belém-PA. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive study with a quantitative and qualitative approach; conducted with 82 students, of both sexes, in age range 8 and 14 years old from two selected schools (A and B) using the active methodology of a healthy snack workshop. The Workshop it happens on the premises of the participating schools, with the preparation and tasting of a healthy snack: natural sandwich, juice from the garden and a fruit. The hedonic facial scale acceptability test was applied and the statistical analysis was planned in the SAM (Statistical Analysis Model) software and the hypothesis tests were performed in the BioEstat program, version 5.3. Results: The study evaluated the acceptability of a healthy snack, through the application of the hedonic facial scale. The acceptance of students was 87.5% in school A and 95.24% in school B. Conclusion: There is feasibility in the execution of healthy snacks with vegetables grown in municipal school gardens and the acceptance rates expressed favorable results for the implementation.