Latar Belakang : Mengonsumsi camilan sering dikaitkan dengan hasil kesehatan yang tidak diinginkan jika mengonsumsi camilan tidak sesuai dengan rekomendasi yang dianjurkan. Konsumsi camilan direkomendasikan sebanyak 25% dari total asupan makan sehari. Konsumsi camilan di Indonesia meningkat 40% dari tahun 2017 hingga tahun 2020. Remaja lebih memilih makanan ringan berdasarkan rasa daripada kandungan gizinya, dan  remaja lebih sering memilih makanan asin dan renyah. Mengonsumsi camilan berdampak pada ketidakseimbangan asupan gizi remaja. Tujuan : Mengetahui hubungan pengetahuan gizi dan tingkat sosial ekonomi dengan pola konsumsi camilan pada pelajar. Metode Penelitian : Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain cross sectional. Data pengetahuan gizi, tingkat sosial ekonomi dan pola konsumsi camilan diambil menggunakan kuesioner google formulir yang disebarkan ke seluruh pelajar di Kabupaten Subang. Jumlah subjek 154 subjek menggunakan metode consecutive sampling, analisis data menggunakan uji Mann Whitney Chi Square dan Continnuity Correction Chi Square. Kriteria insklusi dalam penelitian ini yaitu : subjek pelajar di Kabupaten Subang, subjek dengan usia 10 – 19 tahun, dan bersedia menjadi subjek. Hasil : Tidak terdapat hubungan antara pengetahuan gizi dengan pola konsumsi camilan (p > 0,05). Tidak terdapat hubungan antara tingkat sosial ekonomi dengan pola konsumsi camilan (p > 0,05). Simpulan : Tidak ada hubungan pengetahuan gizi dan tingkat sosial ekonomi dengan pola konsumsi camilan.

The prevalence of school children who skipped breakfast is ranged from 17%to 59%. This fact shows how low the awareness of adequate nutrition in school students is. The aims of this program were to encourage breakfast habit among primary school children (PSC). The breakfast education program was conducted at five primary schools in Purwokerto through trained facilitators, include teachers, in collaboration with PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia and PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk from 2015 to 2017. The theme of this program was “Healthy Breakfast and Safe Snack for Healthier and Smarter Generation”. The number of students participated in this program every year was about 1250 PSC from 3rd grade to 6th grade. The material given for breakfast education program was about healthy breakfast and safe snack, which was bundled as an interesting comic. The breakfast education was given every year, in which a portion of fried noodle with egg and green vegetable plus mineral water and milk was given to each PSC at the day of breakfast program. Data on breakfast habit of PSC were collected at every year before education started. The results showed that 15 teachers for each school already trained and they are expected to be future healthy breakfast educator in each school. The percentage of PSC had breakfast in 2015 was 55.7% then increased to be 67.9% in 2016 and 75.3% in 2017. This implies that a school breakfast education using comic and trained teachers improve PSC breakfast behavior.

Indonesia, a developing country, is still facing nutrition problems caused by lack of access to food and nutrition knowledge. Adolescents play an important role in a long term preventing of nutrition problem. Competition and award are ways of increasing adolescent interest and motivation in gaining nutrition knowledge. Therefore, the purpose of this empowerment program is to improve nutrition capacity og high school students (HSS) through a nutrition ambassador competition and award. The selection of nutrition ambassador candidates is carried out through written selection for 2nd grade HSS in 5 high schools (HS) in each selected city oN 8 cities of Indonesia. Five best couples from each HS then follow a second stage written selection at city level. Finally, the five best couple nominated from the second stage were then interviewed to determine the best three couple as nutrition ambassadors for every city. The result showed about 200 HSS involved as the candidates: and they read the balance nutrition guidebook from ministry of health as an online compulsory reading book which was uploaded in the web of PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia. The mean nutrition knowledge score of the NA was 65.4 ± 12.9 which categorized as moderate level. This activity was appreciated by school principals and by local health district office heads. The nutrition ambassadors helped local health office to educate nutrition to HSS in each city. Now with the assistance from PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia, they are sharing nutrition information and experience via WhatsApp Group. This implies that nutrition ambassador competition and award could be developed to improve nutrition capacity of HSS.