Contenido de loncheras y conocimiento de las madres sobre su preparación en estudiantes del segundo año de educación básica de la Unidad Educativa Particular Bilingüe Liceo Panamericano, en el período lectivo 2019 - 2020.

Abstract

Nutrition is of the utmost importance in school age as it is essential for the correct development and growth in children. Bringing a correct diet, especially in children, helps prevent chronic diseases that cannot be transmitted in the long term. The main objective of this study was to determine the parents' knowledge about the elaboration of lunch boxes and their contents, which are sent to the students of the second year of basic education Unidad Educativa Particular Bilingüe Liceo Panamericano. The present work corresponds to a quantitative, transversal, descriptive, non-experimental study. Information was collected from 83 children and 76 parents, data collection was carried out by observing lunch boxes and surveys directed at parents. The observation showed that the total lunchboxes were made up of 52% of recommended foods and 48% of non-recommended foods, with a difference of 3% more than healthy foods in girls. Despite the high knowledge that parents have, in the distribution of foods that make up the school snack there is less than 5% difference between the presence of recommended and non-recommended foods.