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Prof. Alessandra Fabrino Cupertino
Universidade de Brasília - UnB

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Universidade de Brasília / UNB Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde Campos Darcy Ribeiro s/n Asa Norte Brasília DF 70910900

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Published: 09 February 2021 in Foods
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School meals should focus on quality of life issues, particularly on reducing food shortages, overweight, obesity and its consequences. As an essential tool for quality assurance, creating the menu is an activity of great complexity and requires multidisciplinary knowledge. This activity covers the observation of countless aspects of quality, highlighting nutritional, sensory, cultural, hygienic, and sanitary issues, among others. This study aims to identify and analyze instruments and methods to evaluate school menus in different countries. The authors developed specific search strategies for Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, Pubmed, Lilacs, ProQuest Global, and Google Scholar. The included studies’ methodological quality was assessed using the statistical analysis and meta-analysis review tool (MASTARI). A total of 16 cross-sectional studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. Brazil and Spain were the countries that presented the highest number of studies (n = 5; 31.25% for each). The majority of the studies have a qualitative approach (n = 12, 75%), and only 25% (n = 4) of the studies present quantitative assessment methods to evaluate school menus. No school menu assessment tools were found to assess all aspects of menu planning. The results show a lack of a methodology or of instruments for evaluating the menus offered for school meals that can contribute to better dietary care offered to students.

ACS Style

Alessandra Cupertino; Dayanne Maynard; Fabiana Queiroz; Renata Zandonadi; Verônica Ginani; António Raposo; Ariana Saraiva; Raquel Botelho. How Are School Menus Evaluated in Different Countries? A Systematic Review. Foods 2021, 10, 374 .

AMA Style

Alessandra Cupertino, Dayanne Maynard, Fabiana Queiroz, Renata Zandonadi, Verônica Ginani, António Raposo, Ariana Saraiva, Raquel Botelho. How Are School Menus Evaluated in Different Countries? A Systematic Review. Foods. 2021; 10 (2):374.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Alessandra Cupertino; Dayanne Maynard; Fabiana Queiroz; Renata Zandonadi; Verônica Ginani; António Raposo; Ariana Saraiva; Raquel Botelho. 2021. "How Are School Menus Evaluated in Different Countries? A Systematic Review." Foods 10, no. 2: 374.