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Salt content in food and its intake in the Czech Republic
Olišarová, Anna ; Dostálová, Jana (advisor) ; Chrpová, Diana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the salt content in food and its intake in the Czech Republic. The consumption of salt in the Czech Republic allows up to three times the recommended amount of salt per a day. The companies such as the WHO, EU, EFSA, WASH, SPV and others have been trying to reduce it for a long time. The food reformulation is providing to be the most effective tool for reducing salt consumption. The theoretical part describes salt legislation, the effect of sodium chloride on the human body. It shows what happens when there is lack or excess of sodium in the body. Furthermore, the possible risks of excessive salt consumption are described. There is explained the use of salt in the food industry and the food technology. Food commodities that are important sources of salt, such as bread and pastries, meat products and some types of cheese, are described. The reformulation of food and the efforts of food producers to reduce salt in their products are also presented. The recommended amount of salt and the current production and consumption of salt are also presented. The aim of the practical part is to find out what is the awareness of population of the Czech Republic about the amount of salt in food, their own salt consumption, knowledge of the recommended amount of salt per day and...
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Salt in nutrition of older aged school children
KALETOVÁ, Nikol
This bachelor thesis, which is focused on the topic of salt consumed by older school age children, it is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to mapping how much the older children take salt, and the second part focuses directly on food, of which the older children receive salt the most. In the theoretical part I focused on how much salt should contain the recommended daily amount for the children and on the use of salt in the human body. Then I mention what can cause excessive consumption of salt from early childhood. As we read in many publications, children nowadays using salt as excessively as their life. It is from their parents that children bring the most eating habits to their life. In the last part I focused on individual nutrients that children should consume in the right amount. In the Czech Republic, according to the World Health Organization, salt is used two to three times more than recommended daily amount. In the practical part I worked with 30 respondents for five weekends. During this time, their parents recorded their children´s meals, which included breakfast, snacks, lunch, afternoon snacks, and dinners. For the second part of the research, I used a questinainnaire to find out which types of food the children intake the highest amount salt. Afterwards I recorded all the diet data into Nutriservis Professional, which then evaluated the amount of sodium in milligrams. I transferred the calculations into Excel, where I calculated the amount in grams and then converted to the amount of salt per day using the formula * 2,5. Only then, I could evaluate the total amount of salt and the average of all five weekends for each respondent separately. From the resulting values I processed and evaluated, I found that 53.3% of children in the home environment consumed over 5 grams of salt per day over five weekends. This only confirms the fact, that older school-age children consume more salt than the recommended daily amount, as several authors claim in their printed publications.
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Content of macronutrients and salt in the nutrition of toddlers
Radomská, Věra ; Velemínský, Miloš (advisor) ; Stránský, Miroslav (referee)
The present diploma thesis is engaged in the content of macronutrients and salt in the diet of toddlers. The theoretical part examines the characteristics of the toddler age, delineating the physiological and psychosocial development of toddlers. In addition, the theoretical part analyses in detail the individual components of a healthy diet, fluid intake and technological procedures of meal preparation. The theoretical part further provides the characterization of correct and incorrect eating habits. The objective of the research part is to determine the knowledge level of parents with respect to a healthy diet of toddlers; another objective is to ascertain the intake of macronutrients and salt on individual days and a four-day average, based on the programme Nutriservis Professional. The third objective is to compare results relating the intake of macronutrients and salt with DACH recommendations, binding in the Czech Republic. On the basis of the evaluation of our results, as the fourth objective, recommendations for parents as to the diet of toddlers will be prepared. The research part was completed under the application of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The first part of the research was conducted by form of a questionnaire survey. The other part was carried out by making...
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