Conocimiento y práctica del semáforo nutricional en los consumidores de productos industrializados entre los estudiantes de la Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil.

Abstract

This study purpose was to know a part of the knowledge and use of the nutritional traffic light, as part of the purchase and consumption habits of processed products and thus be able to prevent some chronic non-communicable diseases, the objective of this research was to evaluate the knowledge and practice of the nutritional traffic light in consumers of industrialized products. This study was a analytical descriptive type, the population of this research was the students of the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, where an online survey was carried out with 450 students of different age types and from different faculties. Finally, the results were 45% of the surveyed population belong to the male gender, while the remaining 55% belong to the female gender, regarding the level of knowledge of the people surveyed about the information contained in the nutritional traffic light, it could be concluded 87% have a clear knowledge about said information, it could also be observed that 40% of those surveyed always and almost always take into account the nutritional traffic light information when making purchases, while 45.8% take into account consideration only sometimes the traffic light, 98% of the people surveyed are clear about the color red, 99% of the people are clear about the color yellow, 97% are clear about the color green. As a conclusion, this work was carried out with the purpose of knowing, if there is the complementation of understanding and practice of the nutritional traffic light in the students of the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil.