Desenvolvimento de um catálogo de medidas científicas e caseiras de alimentos vegetais consumidos in natura e produtos açucarados.

Abstract

Food production in Brazil is growing on a large scale, on the other hand it has been found that food waste develops at high levels, impacts environmental and economic expenditures. In this sense, the Food and Nutrition Units are objective to reduce food waste by using the correction factor indicator. With based on the correction factor, units can develop strategies to reduce losses, and standardize home measurements. Considering the lack of home measurements tables for the groups of sugary foods, vegetables and fruits, the present work aims to elaborate a catalog of homemade and scientific measures of these food groups. It was a study descriptive with methodological strategy in direct observation. Weights were measured for elaboration of correction factors and homemade measures for 14 types of vegetables, 18 types of fruits and quantified some sugars most consumed by the regional population. The search was performed in triplicate, then the data were tabulated in Excel 20 I O to obtain the means and standard deviation for fruits and vegetables. All foods were photographers in their homemade measures. It was found that vegetables such as tomatoes presented a standard deviation high in relation to other vegetables, the chard had a fc 32% lower than the values recommended in the literature, fruits such as pineapple and avocado presented a correction factor high, because they have thick skin, or numerous pits and show greater losses during the removal of inedible parts. With all this, the catalog of scientific and homemade measures for fresh fruits and vegetables and sugary foods, it is a tool valuable to the community.