The population of this study is 373 children of self-cooking school divided by urban type and rural type. The study was carried out from August, 2007 to October, 2007 in order to increase the consumption of vegetables, fish and shellfish by the childr...
The population of this study is 373 children of self-cooking school divided by urban type and rural type. The study was carried out from August, 2007 to October, 2007 in order to increase the consumption of vegetables, fish and shellfish by the children through analyzing the preferences according to cooking methods and surveying the preferences according to each food.
In the analysis of family characteristic and the eating habit of vegetables at home, the size of respondent number was shown to be the order of 2~3 times a week, 4~5 times a week and ‘don't eat'. In the case that the lower the age of the mother was, the higher the income was and the larger the family size was, the higher the response that ‘I eat every day' was shown to be. In the analysis of family characteristic and the eating habit of fish and shellfish at home, the size of respondent number was shown to be the order of 2~3 times a week, 4~5 times a week and ‘don't eat', ‘eat everyday'.
In the analysis of the food preferences according to the cooking method of each area, the preference for cabbage(soup/stew), spinach(soup/stew), bean sprouts(broiled) belonging to leaves and stalk vegetables in the urban area was greater than in the rural area. The preference for all the cooking methods of radish(soup/stew), burdock and lotus root belonging to root vegetables in the urban area was greater than in the rural area. The preference for all cooking methods of sweet potato and potato was evenly great regardless of urban or rural area and especially fried food was popular. The preference for the cooking methods of fruit vegetables according to each area wasn't different but the preference for eggplant was surveyed to be low. The preference for pyogo mushroom in the urban area was shown to be greater than in the rural area and hard-boiled food, steamed food, fried food, pan fried foot/flat cake were popular.
The preference for the yellow corvina, hairtail, saury, frozen pollack belonging to fish was evenly great regardless of urban or rural area and flat fish, cordfish, pleurogrammus azonus in urban area were more popular than in rural area. octopus(soup/stew) in rural area was more popular than in urban area. In the case of yellow corvina, hairtail, mackerel, roasted cooking method was most preferred to and in the case of saury, hard-boiled cooking method was preferred to. And in the case of frozen pollack, soup/stew were preferred to(P<0.05) and pan fried foot/flat cake were least preferred to. In the case of dried pollack and dried slices of seasoned whitebait belonging to dried fish, the preference was low without showing any difference according to the area but anchovy and sliced squid were popular. In the analysis of cooking method, urban methods using dried pollack(stew/soup), dried slices of seasoned whitebait(roasted), anchovy(fried) were more popular than rural methods were. The preference for crustacean wasn't different according to each area. In the case of crab(portunus trituberculatus) and shrimp, the average value of the preference was lower than 3.0 that shows high preference. The cooking methods using soup/stew were most preferred to in the case of both crab(portunus trituberculatus) and shrimp. As for the fish and shellfish, the preference of shellfish was higher than that of oyster and the cooking methods of soup/stew were more preferred to as in the crustacean.
In the analysis of the preference difference of the vegetables, brocoli among leaves and stalk vegetables was least preferred to and bean sprouts was most preferred to. Among root vegetables, potato was most preferred to as the preference value of 1.9 and platycodon was least preferred to as the preference value of 3.4. Among fruit vegetables, eggplant was least preferred to as the preference value of 3.5 and cucumber was most preferred to as the preference value of 2.5. Among mushrooms, top mushroom was most preferred to as the preference value of 2.4 and pyogo mushroom was least preferred to as the preference value of 2.9 but almost all the mushrooms were shown to be highly preferred to. In the analysis of preference difference of fish and shellfish, the preference of codfish was the lowest and squid was most preferred to. Among dried fish, anchovy was preferred to and the preference of dried pollack was low. Among crustacean, crab(portunus trituberculatus) and shrimp showed no difference in preference. Among shellfish, clam was preferred to oyster.
As a result of this study, the consumption of vegetables between rural area and urban didn't show significant difference but the consumption of fish and shellfish at both school and home in rural area was low, active guidance of meal service for school in the rural area is required and based on the result of this study, the food of high preference can be used to increase the food of low preference in order to be applied to the meal service for school. The survey of the preference for the food should be implemented frequently to be reflected in the menu. But, if fried food or broiled food is served frequently, that can be harmful to the health of the children. The school should develop various programs to educate children with parents on the knowledge of nutrition so that children can build balanced habit of eating food both at home and at school.