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Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children
International data indicate that children and adolescents obtain around one third of their daily food intake from products consumed outside their home. Food products from restaurants are usually higher in calories and lower in nutritional value than those prepared home. We evaluated the nutritional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32110954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12030612 |
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author | Palos Lucio, Ana Gabriela Sansores Martínez, Diana Nicte-Há Olvera Miranda, Corina Quezada Méndez, Laura Tolentino-Mayo, Lizbeth |
author_facet | Palos Lucio, Ana Gabriela Sansores Martínez, Diana Nicte-Há Olvera Miranda, Corina Quezada Méndez, Laura Tolentino-Mayo, Lizbeth |
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description | International data indicate that children and adolescents obtain around one third of their daily food intake from products consumed outside their home. Food products from restaurants are usually higher in calories and lower in nutritional value than those prepared home. We evaluated the nutritional quality in kids’ meals from three fast food chains and two movie theaters and compared them with nutritional recommendations for Mexican school-age population. Results showed that the menu options marketed for school-age children have higher caloric contributions than those recommended, in addition to a deficient nutritional quality. The contribution of caloric and of almost all macronutrients for all mealtimes is not only high but even above 100% or 200% of the mean recommended daily intake (reaching to more than 400% of the recommendations of carbohydrates and lipids of preschool age group). In particular, the snack main dish (popcorn), provides over 100% of the mean energy intake recommendations for the three school age groups and for preschool age group, this contribution could reach to 270%. Therefore, regulations regarding nutritional recommendations should exist for these types of commercialized food products for school-age children, along with mandatory and clear labeling that allows consumers to be able to make better choices for their kids. |
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spelling | pubmed-71462702020-04-15 Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children Palos Lucio, Ana Gabriela Sansores Martínez, Diana Nicte-Há Olvera Miranda, Corina Quezada Méndez, Laura Tolentino-Mayo, Lizbeth Nutrients Article International data indicate that children and adolescents obtain around one third of their daily food intake from products consumed outside their home. Food products from restaurants are usually higher in calories and lower in nutritional value than those prepared home. We evaluated the nutritional quality in kids’ meals from three fast food chains and two movie theaters and compared them with nutritional recommendations for Mexican school-age population. Results showed that the menu options marketed for school-age children have higher caloric contributions than those recommended, in addition to a deficient nutritional quality. The contribution of caloric and of almost all macronutrients for all mealtimes is not only high but even above 100% or 200% of the mean recommended daily intake (reaching to more than 400% of the recommendations of carbohydrates and lipids of preschool age group). In particular, the snack main dish (popcorn), provides over 100% of the mean energy intake recommendations for the three school age groups and for preschool age group, this contribution could reach to 270%. Therefore, regulations regarding nutritional recommendations should exist for these types of commercialized food products for school-age children, along with mandatory and clear labeling that allows consumers to be able to make better choices for their kids. MDPI 2020-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7146270/ /pubmed/32110954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12030612 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Palos Lucio, Ana Gabriela Sansores Martínez, Diana Nicte-Há Olvera Miranda, Corina Quezada Méndez, Laura Tolentino-Mayo, Lizbeth Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title | Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title_full | Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title_fullStr | Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title_short | Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children |
title_sort | nutritional quality of fast food kids meals and their contribution to the diets of school-aged children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32110954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12030612 |
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