Avaliação do desperdício de uma unidade de alimentação e nutrição de uma universidade pública do estado do Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The food waste in Feeding and Nutrition Unities measures the service quality offered. This form, the correct planning of quantity producedis the fundamental condition to try to reduce or to control this trouble. This work evaluated the waste into a Feeding and Nutrition Unity of a Mato Grosso do Sul Public University through the quantification of daily leftovers and restintake. Were used the waste weight, rest-intake, quantity of food produced and food consumed and the total of customers at dinner time for 17 days. The calculations were made using Vaz (2006) and Abreu and co (2011) formulas. The waste percentage average was 39,15%, classifying the offered service as a very bad performance due the waste of food is above 15% of productivity in all of the assessed days. For the per capita leftover average, the value was also high, 450g. The average obtained to the rest-intake index was maintained in the referenced values until 10%, although the per capita rest-intake average was above, 48,93g. Was observed an inadequate planning of the food produced through average percentage value of leftovers.