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Arévalo, L., Castro, S. (2017). Loncheras de preescolares en cuatro instituciones educativas privadas de Lima, Perú, 2016-2017: tipos, contenidos, calorías y macronutrientes [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/624192
Arévalo, L., Castro, S. Loncheras de preescolares en cuatro instituciones educativas privadas de Lima, Perú, 2016-2017: tipos, contenidos, calorías y macronutrientes [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/624192
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title = "Loncheras de preescolares en cuatro instituciones educativas privadas de Lima, Perú, 2016-2017: tipos, contenidos, calorías y macronutrientes",
author = "Castro Reto, Susan Liley",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2017"
}
Introduction: Food modernization has led to greater availability of industrialized foods, and a lower preference for healthier foods. This affects the feeding of preschoolers through lunch boxes prepared at home. Objective: To evaluate the nutritional contribution according to the type of lunch boxes in four private educational institutions of the district of San Juan de Miraflores, located in Lima, Peru. Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study. A survey was made to the team preparing the lunch box. In addition, we inspected, weighed and took photographs of the food and the labels of the industrialized products. Its caloric use was determined using national and international composition tables, typifying the lunch boxes as an adequate basic and under the guidelines of the Ministry of Health of Peru (MINSA). For the statistical analysis of the descriptive test and the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test. Results: Of 183 people in charge of preparing the pre-school lunch box, 83.6% were mothers. Only 5.5% of the lunch boxes were classified as “basic low“. Among the most popular foods found include bread, banana, egg, yogurt, cookies and cereals. The lunch boxes provide between 61 and 989 calories, the most suitable cleaning functions cover more protein. Finally, they cover 24% of the child's total caloric value and 8% fiber. Conclusions: Most of the hours went down. The most frequent is characterized by containing drink and / or not adequate complement, and you recommend that the educational and promotional strategies be considered in their formulation. These programs should involve whoever prepares the food, the preschool, the school and the community.
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