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Ellen C. L. Montarroyos; Eduardo Y. Nakano; Kelb Bousquet-Santos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
To comparatively analyze nutrient intake and dietary adequacy on weekdays (WKDs) and weekends (WKNs) among undergraduate students. Participants: University students (N = 210), 18-30 years old. Methods: A two-day food record was used. Intake of energy, macronutrients, micronutrients and fiber were calculated, without and with an adjustment for 2000…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Dietetics, Nutrition, Eating Habits
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Silva, Alexandre; Junqueira, Luís; Truninger, Mónica; Delicado, Ana; Csenki, Eszter; Fehér, Ágnes; Ózsvári, László; Szakos, Dávid – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: According to the World Health Organisation's estimates, food contamination is linked to 23 million cases of illness and 5,000 deaths per year in Europe. While changes in food production and distribution play an important role in managing contamination risk, foodborne illnesses can originate in food-handling practices at home. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Safety, Food, Food Standards
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Kristin E. Fjaera; Ratib Lekhal; Sølvi Helseth; Milada Småstuen Hagen; Samira Lekhal – Health Education Journal, 2024
Aim: This study sought to investigate the relationship between knowledge and the practical application (including grocery lists, meal plans and food-related pedagogical plans) of Norwegian national guidelines for food and meals in kindergartens, together with the quality of food served in adherence to these guidelines. The study also examined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Food, Eating Habits
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Vieta Annisa Nurhidayati; Sunhee Seo – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study identified the influence of parents' perceived risks and benefits on children's avoidance of street food near schools in Indonesia. It also assessed how food risk knowledge and trust in food sellers influence risk - benefit perceptions and the moderating effect of school type. An online survey was conducted with 576 parents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Parents, Parent Influence
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Gan Jin; Onur Ramazan; Robert William Danielson – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
As educators, we often seek to engage students' prior knowledge to help them learn new and potentially difficult science content. However, sometimes our experiences with the world lead us to create misconceptions that run counter to the scientific consensus. Refutational texts have been shown to be more effective at changing individuals'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English Instruction, Misconceptions
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Raviv, Ayala; Aflalo, Ester – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of two intervention programs in improving dietary habits in two groups of preschool and fifth-grade students. The programs were tailored to the target age group. The composition of each of the children's breakfasts that were brought from home was recorded both before and after the intervention program.…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction, Health Education, Eating Habits
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Wachenheim, Cheryl – Journal of Food Science Education, 2021
A situated learning exercise was employed to teach food safety content in agribusiness management classes at Renmin University in China. Pedagogical objectives included proficiency at identification and assessment of food safety risk factors, source causation factors, and risk mitigation strategies. Identified themes emerging from student ex-post…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food Service, Food Standards, Safety
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Melanie van Berkum; Julia Diederen; Carla A. P. Buijsse; Remko M. Boom; Perry J. den Brok – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Students in higher engineering education should develop competencies to be prepared for their future professional careers. However, in the field of food technology it is not clear what set of competencies is most relevant. This paper created a comprehensive list of competencies for food technologists by combining both domain-specific and general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Food Standards, Food Processing Occupations
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Ercan Oruc, Duygu; Pokharel, Siroj; Anantheswaran, Ramaswamy C.; Bucknavage, Martin W.; Gourama, Hassan; Shanina, Olga; Cutter, Catherine N. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2020
Understanding and enacting standardized food safety practices in a global economy is important. In 2018, a comprehensive food safety training program, including courses in sanitation, food microbiology and mycology, thermal processing, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, cereal quality, and food defense, was delivered to food industry…
Descriptors: Professional Training, Program Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Attitude Change
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Murray, Sandra; Peterson, Corey; Primo, Carmen; Elliott, Catherine; Otlowski, Margaret; Auckland, Stuart; Kent, Katherine – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Food insecurity and poor access to healthy food is known to compromise tertiary studies in university students, and food choices are linked to student perceptions of the campus food environment. The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence, demographic and education characteristics associated with food insecurity in a sample of…
Descriptors: Incidence, Food Service, Hunger, College Environment
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Hingston, Patricia A.; Bracewell, Deanna D. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2021
Fifty-five Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) comprise the required content for food science degrees approved by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), yet the importance of each outcome for graduate industry readiness is expected to vary. To analyze this variance, we assessed the industry relevance of IFT's recently revised (2018) ELOs and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Graduates, Alumni, Food Standards
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Istiningsih – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2021
This study aims to investigate how the use of an "among"-based mentoring model can improve competencies in vocational education at an agricultural vocational school in Yogyakarta and the social impact that this has. Qualitative research methods were applied in this study, with data being collected through questionnaires, field…
Descriptors: Mentors, Vocational High Schools, High School Students, Rural Extension
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Das, Anik; Amin, Sumaiya; Kabir, Muhammad Ashad; Hossain, Sabir; Islam, Mohammad Mainul Mainul – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
Mobile games can contribute to learning at greater success. In this paper, the authors have developed and evaluated a novel educational game, named FoodCalorie, to learn food calorie intake standard. The game is aimed to learn calorie values of various traditional foods of Bangladesh and the calorie intake standard that varies with age and gender.…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Eating Habits, Health Behavior
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Sumner, Jennifer – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2015
In the field of adult education, literacy is a contested concept, so it is not surprising that terms like food literacy are also highly debated. While some associate food literacy with individual food shopping and preparation, others look to it as a means to engage with larger issues of global import. Given that food literacy is a fairly new term,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Food, Foreign Countries
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Spring, Charlotte; Adams, Mags; Hardman, Michael – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
Drawing on ethnographic research with organisations redistributing wasted food, this paper explores potentials for political and ethical learning by comparing different approaches to food handling and teaching. Food acts as instigator and tool for learning about ecological impacts, wellbeing, provenance, health and pleasure. Re-learning wasted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Ethics, Ecology
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