Percepção acerca do consumo de produtos hortifrutícolas pelos acadêmicos da UFFS - Campus Cerro Largo

Abstract

The Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS) - Campus Cerro Largo/RS is inserted in a municipality with a strong agricultural production, operating mainly in the production of grains and milk, being students of this institution, sons of farmers and many of them come from neighboring towns who leave the family get-together to attend higher education, thus creating new eating habits, other than those that were used in the kind of familiar. The proposal of this project aimed to conduct a study with students from UFFS- Campus Cerro Largo with a view to investigating how the perception of the consumption of horticultural products by the scholars of that institution. According to the Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde – PNS, the recommended consumption of fruits and vegetables, are considered markers of healthy and unhealthy pattern and used in boosters of campaigns and public policy formulations. To achieve the goal was accomplished the implementation of a semi-structured questionnaire with quantitative and qualitative issues, participated in this study where students regularly enrolled in the campus during 2016/02, over 18 years, of both sexes and that voluntarily expressed interest in participating in the study after the clarification. The approaches took place only within the framework of the University and their execution took place after the procedure in the Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa com Seres Humanos (CEP/UFFS). The who recommendation is at least 400 g of fruit and vegetables daily, the equivalent of five servings, which showed up in only 2% and 3% (fruit) (vegetables). On average once a week logo travel trade to buy mainly banana, Apple, Orange, lettuce, cabbage and tomato, generating a spending on average of R$ 12.12 reals. So although show health-conscious, and have interest in the quest for more knowledge about the intake of fruits and vegetables is necessary to motivate them to consume more servings daily, due to consumption of the scholars of UFFS- Campus Cerro Largo/RS in relation to fruits and vegetables, is below the who recommendation.