THE PROFILE OF MILK CONSUMERS IN CASCAVEL - PARANÁ

Abstract

Milk is recognized as one of the food products with the highest nutritional value available for human consumption, due to its richness in protein, vitamin and minerals. Given this context, this work aimed to trace the profile of the population od Cascavel-Pr in relation to milk consumption, and check if the quantity ingested is adequate to the present recommendations. The methodology was based on the application of a questionnaire to 410 people, including children (136), adolescents (79), youngesters/adults (146) and elderlies (49). After applying the quationnaire it was observed that none of the age groups has been ingesting milk as recommended by the Health Ministry, thus, insuficient ingestion of calcium by the population can be implied. Therefore, it can be concluded that the population lacks information about the importance of this product and for this reason educative lectures shoud be carried out in this area.