HYGIENIC JUSTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN RATIONS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
The work presents a modern development of school menu options for two age groups of students in educational organizations. The analysis of the existing menu of schoolchildren is given. The research data on taste preferences of students of grades 1-11 of Moscow schools and the evaluation of consumption of each dish from the current menu, taking into account the assortment of products purchased at the school buffet and outside the school, home-based meals received during monitoring of food intake by schoolchildren of different age groups canteen educational organizations. Approved and agreed on two options for the menu, corresponding to the current regulatory documents on food and biological value, caloric content, the frequency of meals in accordance with sanitary requirements. Presented are technological maps of new, previously not used in school meals and culinary products. The development of two options for a daily two-week menu provides for the concentration of food, culinary items and food most eaten by 33children in the school, leaving their parents to provide food for their children at home in accordance with the developed diet, where the recommended meals are offered in order to comply with the principles of continuity of school and household meals. The menu stores the positions of the children's most consumed dishes so that the child ate the proposed assortment at school in each meal, and the parents knew how to feed the child at home on a particular day. Taking into account the data on the taste preferences of pupils at school and at home, the menu with new principles and a modern approach for the school, taking into account the household nutrition, the authors recommend that they be introduced into school meals. When using the menu in school and at home, it is necessary to take into account the urgency and importance of the approaches outlined above in order to maximize the satisfaction of the diurnal physiological needs of schoolchildren at the present stage and to conduct the necessary explanatory work with parents, children and teachers.