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School lunch nutritional adequacy: What is served, consumed and wasted

Objective: To determine nutritional adequacy of school lunch and to assess the impact of food waste on nutrient intake of primary school children. Design: The weighing method was used for evaluating initial servings and plate waste for lunch. Energy and nutritional content of meals served, consumed and wasted were estimated using the software Food Processor Plus. The mean nutritional value of food served and co...

Factors influencing food waste during lunch of fourth-grade school children

This study aims to explore the factors that influence plate waste at lunches served in primary schools. Data was collected for all fourth-grade children attending 21 primary schools from the city of Porto (Portugal) (n = 463). Plate waste was evaluated by the weighing method and factors influencing plate waste were collected by observation of menu and canteen characteristics and through the application of a que...

Evaluation of determinants of food waste in family households in the greater po...

Despite food waste occurring along the entire food supply chain, a significant proportion occurs in domestic settings. Large quantities of domestic food waste have been attributable to consumer behaviors during buying, cooking, consumption, and disposal. The main objective of this research was to understand the major determinants of household food waste from families in the north of Portugal. A convenience samp...

Factors influencing food waste during lunch of fourth-grade school children

This study aims to explore the factors that influence plate waste at lunches served in primary schools. Data was collected for all fourth-grade children attending 21 primary schools from the city of Porto (Portugal) (n = 463). Plate waste was evaluated by the weighing method and factors influencing plate waste were collected by observation of menu and canteen characteristics and through the application of a que...

Comunicação dos perigos alimentares pela imprensa escrita: um estudo de caso pa...

Food choice and food consumption frequency of Cape Verde inhabitants

The knowledge of the food pattern of a population is crucial for establishing nutritional and epidemiological profiles, as well as for controlling the market of foodstuffs and to help in the management of stock of staple foods. This study aims to evaluate food consumption and its association with the underlying motives for consumers' food choices, through the application of a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) ...

Application of the Food Choice Questionnaire across cultures: Systematic review...

The Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) is a 36-item instrument assessing the importance of a number of factors that influence food choice: health, sensory appeal, price, convenience, mood, natural content, weight control, familiarity and ethical concern. The FCQ already counts with applications from over 40 countries and its translation into more than 20 languages. The main objective of this paper is to review the...

Food Choice Questionnaire in an African country - Application and validation in...

The Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) is a multidimensional measure that simultaneously evaluates the various factors that have an impact on daily food choices. Since its development by Steptoe et al. (1995), this tool has already been used in several countries, but had not yet been applied and validated in an African country. This study aims to evaluate the applicability of FCQ in Cape Verde, as well as to creat...

Determinação do teor em compostos bioativos, cor e teor de água ao longo do pro...

Atividade antioxidante de diferentes infusões de plantas