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Comparison of individual species and groups of fruit in terms of content and properties of nutritionally valuable components
HAVLÍKOVÁ, Martina
The work deals with the content and features of nutritionally valuable fruits constituents and detects the frequency of its consumption among secondary school students. The theoretical part deals with the basic breakdown of fruit with a description of important species of each group. There are also distributed and described, given the importance in human nutrition, most nutritionally valuable components of fruits - vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, roughage, carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. The practical part deals with the comparison of individual fruits in terms of nutritionally valuable constituents. When comparing nutritionally valuable constituents of fruits was found that nuts exhibits considerably higher amounts of vitamins, minerals and lipids than other group of fruit. This section also contains a survey related to questions about the frequency and popularity of eating fruit in secondary school students aged 17-20 years. The results are analyzed and graphically displayed. Research shows that 98 % of students likes fruit and prefer to eat it fresh. Their favorite kind are apples, which are our most usual fruit. In contrast, the fruits that students do not like to include grapefruit and currant. According to the survey, students understand the importance of fruit in the diet to their health, but it is important to pay attention constantly to have a varied diet in adolescents.
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