Avaliação qualitativa dos cardápios de escolas de educação infantil da rede pública de ensino de Goiânia

Abstract

Healthy eating is directly linked to disease prevention and health maintenance, so learning environments such as schools, day care centers and education centers must act as an environment of good eating practices. The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) aims to contribute to the development of students. Several instruments have been used for the evaluation of the menus, one of them is the Qualitative Evaluation Method of the Menu Preparations (AQPC). For this, a detailed analysis of the menu was made, verifying the frequency that the groups of foods that were considered “recommended” and “controlled” appeared according to the AQPC method. In this way, the work proved to be extremely valid for emphasizing the points of attention in the evaluated menus.