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Fruits and Vegetables Consumption Pattern In School Children

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Food consumption in school children is determined by their food pattern and food preferences. This affects nutritional intake for their body. Many children like to consume fast food. As a reseult the consumption of fruits and vegetables tend to below their requirements. Moreover, child who consumes too much fast food could experience overweight/obesity much easier than he/she does not. This Study aims is to determine fruits and vegetable consumption pattern and its related factors in school children in SD Dajan Peken. This is a cross-sectional of 81 samples. The study found taht 58,0% sample has been introduced to consume fruits and 66.7% vegetables in the age between 6 and 9 months. Most samples (56.8%) have good knowledge in nutrition, but 9.9% sample have less knowledge. There are 91.4% samples who could provide fruits and vegetables in family. There are 77.8% have good preferences in fruits,and 53.1% in vegetables. The School children that had good consumption in fruit and vegetables are about 87.7%. There were about 80.2%samples have good frequency in fruit and 6.2% in vegetables. It was about 51.8% samples consumed good types of fruit and 45.7% samples have good types of vegetables.

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Jurnal Skala Husada, 8 (2) 2011 : 119-131

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Denpasar : Politeknik Kesehatan Denpasar Bersama., 2011

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7p

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English

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1693-931X

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child
fruit
VEGETABLES

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