Place des sandwichs dans la nutrition des Algériens

Abstract

Nutrition education is a process of acquiring knowledge and skills which leads in the nutritional field to an essentially cognitive approach which has for main goal of improving the health of the population by improving habits food. In Algeria, this type of study is rare, which justifies our commitment to study it. Good health starts with good nutrition. For adults, these two terms are of capital importance, while consumption outside the home has increased considerably over the past decades and has taken an important place in the usual diet by eating foods that are easy to prepare and quick to eat such as: than the sandwich. The sandwich makes it possible, by taste or by necessity, to eat quickly at lunchtime, often at a reasonable cost. As it is polyfunctional; it can be eaten at the table or outside the table. Cross-sectional survey was carried out on 157 subjects of both sexes (81 male and 76 female), aged 18-60 years. Our work aims to study the eating behavior of people from an Algerian population aged 18 to 60 years old using qualitative data analysis. Our study addresses the problems posed by unhealthy eating habits. The results obtained from our survey show that the majority of adults take their sandwich away from home, a significant consumption of cereal and starchy products (fries, white bread), sweet and fatty products (cheese, sodas) and a lower consumption of fish and fruit which unbalances the food intake which poses the problem of obesity. Not forgetting the harmful transformation effect when cooking food (Maillard reaction) such as the loss of nutritional quality which produces acrylamide which is considered a carcinogenic product.