Ações de vigilância alimentar e nutricional em um restaurante universitário do Recôncavo da Bahia

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Analyze the existence of stocks of Food and nutritional Surveillance in a Universi ty Restaurant of a municipality of Recôncavo of Bahia. METHODS: we conducted a observa tional study and participatory type cross-section. The information was collected between the months of July and August 2013 and as a tool for collecting, devised a script called assess ment questionnaire on food and nutritional surveillance. DISCUSSION: currently the Univer sity restaurant works every day and provides three meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) having as target audience, students of the institution. In relation to the production of the meals, the restaurant does not exist “per capita” registered, which would facilitate the prepa ration of the menu, were also not found datasheets preparations. In preparing the menu, is used as a parameter, pre-existing menus on the service. The nutritional profile of workers and users are unknown. It is the responsibility of the nutritionist, contribute to promote, preserve and recover the health of man, and, as a basic principle, the well-being of the individual and the collective. It should be noted also that there are no records of educational activities or food and nutrition education campaigns for collective or employees. It was possible to ob serve that in spite of this trying to fit the suggested recommendations for the correct applica tion of the food and nutritional surveillance, are still few actions performed by the restaurant investigated. Actions in health promotion and nutritional surveillance in the context of UAN should be planned and applied routinely and not only one-off form.