Feasibility of the requirements and recommendations of the Brazilian school feeding program
 
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Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
 
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Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
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Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
 
 
Publication date: 2023-04-27
 
 
Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A1778
 
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Background and Objective: Brazilian School Feeding Program offers adequate and healthy meals for public basic education students. In 2020, it aligned its recommendations to the Brazilian Dietary Guidelines establishing that most foods purchased should be unprocessed or minimally processed, in variety, and limiting the purchase of processed and ultra-processed foods. The study Aims to analyze the percentage of municipalities that complied with the recommendation for variety and with the fund limit requirement established for the purchase of processed and ultra-processed foods. Methods: Secondary data from the Accountability Management System of the National Fund for Educational Development was used. The foods were grouped according to the NOVA classification system. Resolution No. 6 recommends that the annual offer of at least 50 different types of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and stablish that, at most, 20% of the funds can be used to purchase processed and ultra-processed foods. The feasibility of the municipalities to meet Resolution No. 6 were assessed using data from 2016. Descriptive analyses were run. Results: A total of 3,698 municipalities were evaluated, equivalent to 66.4% of the Brazilian municipalities. The mean number of unprocessed or minimally processed foods purchased in Brazil was 33.77, ranging from 0 to 169, and the mean percentage of municipalities that followed the recommendation was 8.68%. Considering the funds used to purchase processed and ultra-processed foods, the mean was 25.77%, from 0 to 100%, and 35.83% of the municipalities were within the established limit. Conclusions: The findings show the feasibility of the resolution, since some Brazilian municipalities had already been practicing to the established limits and recommendations. Combining the restriction on the purchase of processed and ultra-processed foods and a specific recommendation for a variety of unprocessed or minimally processed foods in the program is important to provide students with adequate and healthy meals.
 
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