초등학생들의 식생활 행동과 식품 기호도 조사

A Study on Food Habits and Food Preferences of the Elementary School Children - Focused in Chonnam Province

We research sixth grade students who are in vigorous growing from seventeen elementary schools which chosen random in Chonnam to find out eating habits and food preference. The study was carried out on 403, 6th grade students (boys : 206, girls : 197). The results are summarized as follows ; About regular meal, boy students eat well than girl students. But we can see skip or irregular meal also. About measure of overeating and voracious eating, many of students answer that they can adjust themselves about eating. Over the half of students answer that they watch a TV or do something while eating and there is different between boy students and girl students. A girl students eat a snack frequently. We should care about this. Even though snack become general with eating out and dining out it can make for students taste turn down and it can drive out of nutritional balance. On the other hand, we can get there conclusions from research food preference about comparative familiar food and snack. Students like rice most so far. And they like a roast meat, a hamburger, a soybean paste stew, a sweet and sour pork etc and eat them frequently. Students have more chance to eat from development of domestic economy. But They choose preference food with color, taste, eating experience, various media. The parents should help their children to get good eating habit not let them alone. About a milk product, there is quite different between boys and girls. Generally, boys like it more. It need to encourage to eat milk products which contain many good nutrition for growing. From these facts, we must collect basic data continually to fit with rapid change of the students’ food preference educationally and efficiently. Also, It should consider intake a balance nutrition and calorie to guide student who are growing in home and school.