Educação alimentar e nutricional nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: uma revisão integrativa de experiências em escolas públicas brasileiras

Abstract

Food and Nutritional Education is a transversal theme of basic education in Brazil, with skills and abilities defined by educational level/age group, to be worked on in different curricular components in an intra, inter and transdisciplinary way in schools. Objective: to identify food and nutritional education strategies used with elementary school students in the early years of public schools and verify whether the themes are in line with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health/Protocol for the Use of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population in Guidance Nutrition for Children aged 2 to 10 years. Methods: integrative review, using the PRISMA protocol (2020), in online databases (PubMed/MEDLINE; LILACS and SciVerse Scopus). Results: ten studies were identified, with nineteen EAN strategies, but without details. Pedagogical garden was the main strategy (60%), followed by events (30%), music (30%) and traditional approach to curricular subjects (30%). The themes partially covered the recommendations of the protocol, highlighting the encouragement of the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Conclusion: playful strategies are used at this level of education and the themes identified are in line with the guide protocol for children, making it necessary to expand the use of the other recommendations in this document.