Avaliação do nível de aceitabilidade em relação à merenda servida aos alunos de instituições públicas: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Food in nutritional quantity and quality is a citizen's right and a duty of the state. An adequate and healthy diet for school-age children and adolescents is of fundamental importance, as it contributes to growth, development, learning and academic performance, in addition to helping to form healthy eating habits. It is necessary to obtain sufficient nutrients from the diet in order to promote its full development. Objective: literature review on the acceptance of food in public educational institutions. Method: review carried out in the Google Scholar, Scielo and Lilacs databases. The descriptions used were: “acceptability of school meals” and “acceptability of school meals”. The inclusion criteria for the choices were Brazilian articles published in the last 5 years. Results: 14 works on school feeding were analyzed. The articles chosen to compose the study, for the most part, were composed using the hedonic scale method, from different cities in Brazil, with students of varying ages, from daycare students to high school students from a Federal Institute. The main result shows that 64.3% of institutions did not reach the 85% acceptability index proposed by the PNAE. Conclusion: it is important to highlight the need for more research on the acceptability of school meals with the aim of improving acceptance, and it is necessary to identify the elements that contribute to a low level of acceptability