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http://dx.doi.org/10.17495/easdl.2015.8.25.4.710

Factors related to School Food Waste in High School Students in Gyeongnam  

Park, Seo-Young (Gonyang High School)
Choi, Ye-Ji (Dept. of Nutrition, Gyeongsang National University Hospital)
Kim, Sung-Hee (Dept. of Food and Nutrition/Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University)
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Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life / v.25, no.4, 2015 , pp. 710-719 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was undertaken to identify factors affecting school food waste generation using a questionnaire. The subjects were 254 high school students (male; 156, female; 98) in Sacheon, Gyeongnam divided into three groups of low (${\leq}1/week$), moderate (2~3/week), and high (${\geq}4/week$) according to the frequencies of food waste. The questionnaires consisted of general characteristics, anthropometric values, dietary habits, health-related behaviors, self-perceptions of food waste, snacking patterns, and nutrition knowledge. The main reasons behind food waste were 'too much food' in the low (20.9%) and moderate (32.2%) groups, and 'no appetite' in the high group (p<0.01). The main types of food waste were rice (44.2%) > fish (18.6%) > vegetables (14.0%) in the low group, rice (54.2%) > Kimchi/vegetables (15.3%) in the moderate group, rice (56.0%) > vegetables (20.0%) > Kimchi (16.0%) in the high group (p<0.01). School food waste was significantly affected by age, gender, monthly allowance, school grade, weight, BMI, regularity of meals, time of meals, type of breakfast, starting age of smoking, and cost for snacking.
Keywords
High school students; school food waste; frequencies of food waste;
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