Avaliação do consumo de alimentos orgânicos durante a pandemia da Covid-19.

Abstract

In search of improving the quality of life, favoring the maintenance of health in order to prevent diseases, people have opted for changes in their eating habits. That demand increased even more after the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, in which individuals began to seek and consume healthier foods, such as organic products, with in order to strengthen the immune system, and consequently reduce the chances of develop pathologies, such as covid-19. Therefore, the present work aimed to with the present work to evaluate the incidence of the consumption of organic foods during the covid-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive-quantitative study, in which it was built an electronic questionnaire on the google forms platform and applied through social networks, such as WhatsApp and Instagram, covering questions regarding general aspects of consumption of organic food. Gender, age, knowledge about food and organic products, as well as the level of understanding of these products, if there have been changes in eating habits during the pandemic, in addition to the consumption of organic products in this period and what motivated this practice. The data were analyzed on the google platform itself. forms and expressed in percentage graphs. A total of 187 individuals were evaluated and, after the data analysis, it was found that the majority (74.9%) are female, as well as most respondents (48.1%) are between 20 and 27 years of age and know about organic foods (97.5%). Furthermore, most of the respondents understand these foods as “without pesticides/fertilizers/chemicals/poison/hormone” (86.1%), however, a large part claimed not to consume organic food during the pandemic of covid-19 (52.9%). The health benefits of consuming these products organic was the reason why most people buy it, and a good part of them said who have moderately (more or less) changed their eating habits, seeking a healthier food in the pandemic. In view of this, it is possible to observe that individuals have sought to change their eating patterns, however, the pandemic and the various consequences caused by social isolation have had an impact on this, making this process.