Educação alimentar: a análise de rótulos como estratégia educativa para promover uma alimentação saudável

Abstract

Promoting the reading of labels with the help of teaching chemistry to encourage the habit of looking at the packaging when buying and consuming these foods, as a strategy for healthy eating education among children and adolescents. Based on this purpose of theoretical and practical knowledge, students of the Food Technician Course Integrated to High School - IFPE - Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - Campus Barreiros (Cursos Técnico de Alimentos Integrado ao Ensino Médio – IFPE – Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia – Campus Barreiros, State of Pernambuco, Northeast Region, Brazil) were approached to analyze and carry out research practices on the subject. Using the methodology of individual interviews and group conversations, where the importance of good nutrition was discussed, the new changes in legislation in 2022, which were added with the way of printing the packages, taking the option of choosing when buying food with more clarity. In the food routine, more processed and industrialized foods were included within the scope of the Brazilian population, encouraged shortly after COVID 19 pandemic, who can develop chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, kidney and cardiovascular diseases