Una aproximación a las prácticas y contextos alimentarios de estudiantes de escuelas secundarias rionegrinas. Reflexiones en torno al desayuno.

Abstract

Understanding human nutrition as a complex fact, which unites the biological/nutritional with the socio/cultural in an indissoluble way, this study aims to describe eating practices and contexts of adolescents in the city of General Roca, Río Negro, showing the potential of the food landscape as an instrument to characterize breakfasts. Participants were 31 students belonging to the basic cycle of three secondary schools in the city, two from the public sector and one from private management, who recorded with images all the eating episodes of a weekday and a weekend day. They socialized them using a social network, Instagram, each accompanied by an explanatory post. A bank of images was created that later allowed the approximation of a food landscape and the analysis of food practices. The framing was done from a micro point of view: at the domestic level, on the food, the dishes and the table, including episodes within the school. Aspects involved in the biological/nutritional and socio/cultural dimensions were analyzed. A landscape of breakfasts was formed in a preliminary way, being possible to infer a breakfast characterized by the scarce variety of foods and nutrients, based on processed foods, of low nutritional density, poor in protein, fiber and micronutrients. The contexts in which breakfast was made show that it was generally at home, prepared by themselves and without company. We conclude that through the images of the profiles it was possible to describe breakfast from the biological/nutritional and sociocultural dimensions. The idea of ​​food landscape allows other aspects related to food to be incorporated for study, expanding the possibilities of intervention in the development of food education, placing students in a more active place to think about their own food, which can then be translated into choices. most beneficial foods.