La Alimentación de Colores una Nueva Alternativa para Niños/as Riobamba 2011

Abstract

The present aimed to design dining options, favoring the use of colors as an option to encourage children the consumption of healthy foods. The research was conducted with 80 parents and kinder garden’s children Little Seeds from Riobamba city during the academic year September 2011 - June 2012. Through family parents was obtained information concerning food habits of children for on this basis, the proposed plan favored food nutritional value, particularly organoleptic color, including vegetables, fruits and natural products. All preparations proposals, presented high levels of acceptance by children particularly those made from fruit. The nutritional contribution of the preparations is in the margins set to cover a school snack so they can be included in feeding programs that keep many educational institutions such as the garden where the research was conducted.