Propuesta de creación de opciones de comida saludable para los bares de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

In our country, in recent years there has been an accelerated increase in rates of overweight and obesity especially in the adult population, this as a result of unbalanced diets low in nutritional quality, but with high consumption of sugars, fats and processed foods. Given that young university students are in the transition stage from adolescence to adulthood and this is when they begin to build their eating habits, it is necessary to develop proposals that allow young people to eat in a nutritious and balanced way. It is for this reason that a project focused on the Bars of the University of Cuenca has been developed, since these are the closest establishments to which students go to eat their food, in this project the objective is the design of healthy food options that can be marketed in the bars of the institution. For the development of this project, the food preferences, budget and time that students allocate to their food have been taken into consideration, this information has been obtained through a survey sent to the university community. Additionally, the assessment of the students about recipes already prepared has been taken into consideration by conducting a tasting in order to know the degree of acceptability of the proposed offer. Keywords: Healthy eating, school bars, university students, budget, food preferences, time