Food Pattern and Availability of Fruits and Vegetables Among High School Students

Muharni, 198110292005012002 and Martupa Nauli, Martupa and Aslis Wirda Hayati, Aslis Food Pattern and Availability of Fruits and Vegetables Among High School Students. The 1st International Conference on Global Health.

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Abstract

Most of Indonesian teens (93.7%) had a lack of fruits and vegetables consumption (Balitbangkes, 2013). This fact would give contribution to increasing number of degenerative disease prevalence later on. It is important to know the variety of teens consumption on fruits and vegetables especially its food pattern. The obiective in this study was to investigate the food pattern and availability of truits and vegetables among high school students. It was a cross-sectional study sited at SMA 8 Pekanbaru on January - April 2015. 65 high school students were randomly selected among 844 students. The food pattern of fruits and vegetables variable consist of type, frequency and amount of truits and vegetables consumption were taken using FFQ questionnaire and 2 x 24 hours" food recall in non-consecutive days (1-day week day, 1-day week end). Availability of fruits and vegetables were using semi-structured questionnaire regarding availability of fruits and vegetables at school and home. All data were analyzed descriptively using data processing software. Type of fruits they mostly consumed were orange, apple and banana. Spinach, water spinach and chayote were the mostly consumed vegetables among respondents. Only half of students (60% and 55.38%) ate more than 2x fruits and vegetables respectively. About 43.08% students ate less than 200 grams per day and 41.54% students ate less than 300 grams per day. The availability of vegetables was mostly at home (87.69%) rather than at school (29.23%. On the other hand, the availability of fruits was almost the same between at home and school (35.38% and 32.3% respectively). It is necessary to give nutrition education regarding the important of fruits and vegetables consumption especial wide variety types of fruits and vegetables

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