Nutrient offerings from the meals and snacks served in four daycare centers in Guatemala City

Vossenaar, Marieke; Panday, Bindiya; Hamelinck, Victoria; Soto-Méndez, María José; Doak, Colleen M.; Solomons, Noel W.

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2010.06.007

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“…[13] As RESEARCH CCFs determine the child's daily routine, including meal plans, these facilities are platforms for the improvement of the child's nutritional and physical status. [14] Methods…”

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Nutritional adequacy of menus offered to children of 2 - 5 years in registered childcare facilities in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

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Napier

2017

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Background. The number of children that spend a large part of the day at childcare facilities (CCFs) has risen worldwide. The parent relies on caregivers in CCFs to provide children with balanced meals. Studies in various parts of South Africa (SA) that analysed CCF menus have found that the menus do not satisfy the daily requirements of energy and micronutrients for children. With increasing numbers of children attending CCFs, and an increase in the global prevalence of obesity, information with regards to food presented at the facilities was of interest not only to compare the energy, macro-and micronutrient intake, but also to consider the dietary diversity offered to the children on a daily basis. Objectives. To analyse menus offered to children in CCFs in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal for nutritional adequacy and to calculate the contribution the meals make to the dietary reference intakes for children in the 2 -5-year age category. Methods. Permission from the Department of Social Development (DSD) in Durban was obtained to approach the CCFs to participate in the study. Ten CCFs in the Inanda area were randomly selected from the DSD list of 45 registered CCFs. The researcher gathered menus, recipes and serving sizes from each of the 10 CCFs. Food Finder version 3 software (MRC, SA), adjusted to include fortified wheat and bread products, was used to analyse the recipes. Results. The CCFs in Inanda served breakfast and lunch to the children daily. The top 20 list of foods offered cereal-based staples of rice and maize meal more frequently than meat, dairy products and fruit and vegetables. None of the CCFs met 60% of daily requirements for energy, fibre and calcium for children in this age group. Conclusion. Menus offered to children aged 2 -5 years in registered CCFs in Inanda are nutritionally inadequate. This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.

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Nutritional adequacy of menus offered to children of 2 - 5 years in registered childcare facilities in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

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2017

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“…Menu analysis, which requires no ethical approvals while fostering precision and exactness down to the level of food ingredients, has proven to be a useful tool for diverse applications, [34][35][36][37][38][39][40] including those of our group in Guatemala. [9][10][11]…”

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“…This present situation, however, is consistent with what was observed in our previous day care center studies in urban Guatemala in which dietary analysis in 4 day care centers revealed that preformed vitamin A offerings accounted for 26% to 71% of the total vitamin A intake. 10 The vitamin A intake exceeded the UL in 2 of the 4 centers examined. Further analysis of the total daily diet of children attending 2 day care centers revealed median daily vitamin A intakes of 1862 and 1227 RAE.…”

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“…A time-honored conventional approach for examining the dietary origins of nutrients is to rank order the top 10 or 20 contributing sources. 10,11,[25][26][27][28][29][30] The main source of energy, macronutrients, and micronutrients of the offering of a 40-day SOSEP menu was computed. Furthermore, the 10 leading nutrient sources among 10 vitamins and minerals selected for the suspicion of being problematic in the Guatemalan diet are presented in descending order of percentage contribution to the total daily intake.…”

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“…Day care center meal provision and nutrient offering in Guatemalan public facilities serving low-income families has been an interest of Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) in several previous publications. [9][10][11] Overall, we observed that nutrient density of the diet provided at the institutions was adequate and complemented the home diet well. 11 The detailed analysis of foods and beverages served at day care centers provided the basis for suggesting reforms at the specific centers and for understanding the generic challenges and opportunities across the system for low-income attendees in Guatemala City.…”

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Within an environment of budgetary constraints, the Guatemalan government developed and advocated an exemplary menu offering for children in the vulnerable preschool period. We have demonstrated that, if prepared and served as planned, the items from the official, standard menu would supply most of the nutrients needed. High vitamin A intake related to the mandated national fortification program is a potential problem. From the analysis, it was found that vitamin D emerges as the most prominent candidate for a problem nutrient of deficient intake.

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Nutrient offerings from the meals and snacks served in four daycare centers in Guatemala City

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