Uso de cartilha educativa como ferramenta de divulgação das plantas alimentícias não convencionais (PANCS) como opção alternativa no cardápio do Instituto Federal do Piauí (IFPI) - Campus Uruçuí

Abstract

The Brazilian population has spent more time at work, thus, with less time available for meals at home. As a result, people are forced to consume faster meals or fast food, usually ultra-processed food, with higher caloric value, less variety of foods and few vegetables. This fact has led to an increase in cases of eating disorders in recent years. PANCS can be qualified as functional foods, as they contain in their composition essential vitamins and nutrients that are not found in other foods. Thus, this project aimed to understand the students 'perception of non-conventional food plants (PANCS) as healthy alternatives and options on the students' menu of the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI) - Campus Uruçuí. For this, a methodology divided into six stages was adopted: a) Bibliographic survey; b) Contact with students (through WhastApp); c) Application of the Free and Informed Consent Form (ICF); d) Presentation of a digital booklet (through the WhastApp); e) Application of online forms (through Google forms); f) Evaluation of results (through excel). The work was developed with 55 students, who answered the online form. There was a good evaluation of them on the digital booklet, most students rated it very good (23 = 42%). It was noted that the majority of students (25 = 45.5%) rated the quality of the PANCS content exposed in the digital booklet as very good. It was also registered that most students classified as beneficial (32 = 58.2%) the benefits of PANCs exposed in the digital booklet. It was also found that most of them also demonstrated to accept insertion of the recipes exposed at the end of the booklet in their food, (90.9% of students = 50). Finally, the use of the digital booklet proved to be quite attractive to students, as most of them showed great acceptance for the content, in addition to praising the graphic quality and relevance of the content of unconventional food plants (PANCS). It was also found that students have a good understanding of the importance of unconventional food plants (PANCS)