Perception of Use of Environment-friendly Agricultural Products during School Foodservice of Mothers of Elementary School Students in Gyeonggi

Young-Un An; Myung-Hee Kim; Mi-Kyeong Choi; Mi-Hyun Kim

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An, Kim, Choi, and Kim: Perception of Use of Environment-friendly Agricultural Products during School Foodservice of Mothers of Elementary School Students in Gyeonggi

Research Article

Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2018; 23(3): 234-242.

Published online: 30 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2018.23.3.234

Perception of Use of Environment-friendly Agricultural Products during School Foodservice of Mothers of Elementary School Students in Gyeonggi

Young-Un An¹, Myung-Hee Kim², Mi-Kyeong Choi², Mi-Hyun Kim²

¹Major in Nutrition Education, Graduate School of Education, Kongju National University, Yesan 32439, Korea.

²Division of Food Science, Kongju National University, Yesan 32439, Korea.

Corresponding author: Mi-Hyun Kim. Division of Food Science, Kongju National University, Yesan 32439, Korea. Tel: (041) 330-1463, Fax: (041) 330-1469, mhkim1129@kongju.ac.kr

Received 4 June 2018 Revised 26 June 2018 Accepted 26 June 2018

The Korean Society of Community Nutrition

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Abstract

Objectives

This study was to investigate the perception of mothers of elementary school students regarding environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice.

Methods

A total of 282 mothers whose children were receiving environment-friendly agricultural products during elementary school foodservice in Gyeonggi participated in this questionnaire survey. The survey was conducted to investigate respondents perception and satisfaction with environment-friendly agricultural products in their children's school meals from May 29 to June 9, 2017.

Results

About 79% of the subjects were satisfied with school foodservice. The most important aspects of school foodservice were nutrition (35.8%) and sanitation (34.8%). Over 80% of the subjects were aware of environment-friendly agricultural products and about 54% of the subjects checked for a certification mark when purchasing environment-friendly agricultural products. Additionally, 72.3% of the subjects knew that environment-friendly agricultural products were used at school. The advantages of using environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice were safety (75.5%) and high food quality (16.3%). About 66% of the mothers knew the school was receiving support from the city or education office for using environment-friendly agricultural products. Additionally, 74.5% of the mothers responded that they are willing to pay for use of environment-friendly agricultural products when subsidies were not supported.

Conclusions

The positive perception and high support for use of environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice among elementary students' mothers can be used as basic data for expansion of the use of environment-friendly agricultural products in school foodservice.

Keywords: environment-friendly agricultural products, school foodservice, elementary school students' mothers

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General characteristics of the subjects

Table 2

Perception on school food service of the subjects n (%)

^*: p<0.05

1) t-value

Table 3

Perception on environment-friendly agricultural products of the subjects n (%)

^*: p<0.05

1) t-value

Table 4

Perception on environment-friendly agricultural products at school meals of the subjects n (%)

^**: p<0.01

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