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SANTOS, Vanessa Fernandes Amadei; NEVES, Felipe Silva; MENDES, Larissa Loures  e  BINOTI, Mirella Lima. Nutritional quality of snacks for preschoolers recommended on the internet. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2017, vol.27, n.1, pp.64-70. ISSN 0104-1282.  https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.127654.

INTRODUCTION: Concerns about proper nutrition in childhood have been highlighted by the media. This is accompanied by an ongoing increase in the number of Internet pages, including those on social networks, channeled toward providing health information. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the nutritional quality of snack recipes presented on web pages, aimed at preschoolers and described as healthy. METHODS: A cross-sectional study carried out in 2015. A search was made for Brazilian web pages aimed at the lay public, and that contained snacks for children between 2 and 6 years of age. The first 20 URLs located by the search engine were selected and 10% of the recipes were set apart. The snacks were checked for compliance with steps 6, 7, and 8 of the Food Guide. Subsequently, nutritional labels were made for the preparations that met the three pre-established steps. RESULTS: 85% of the pages were sites, 5% were blogs, and the rest were identified as sites/blogs. It was found that all were readable/comprehensible and 40% provided author identification. Of the 35 preparations initially observed, 31.4% met all three steps for healthy eating. In the qualitative analysis, seven were considered hypocaloric; only one of the snacks came close to the proposed carbohydrate content; two had excess protein. In general, the recipes had low quantities of: lipids, calcium, iron, sodium, and fiber. CONCLUSION: Less than half of the addresses consulted identified the author. In addition, the recipes were predominantly misleading, as most had inadequacies in macronutrient and micronutrient content.

Palavras-chave : child; eating habits; nutrition; internet.

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