NUTRITION IN PRESCHOOL AGE: PART 1. IMPORTANCE, REFERENCE VALUES, METHODS OF RESEARCH AND THEIR APPLICATION. REVIEW

*Sylwia Merkiel, Wojciech Chalcarz

Summary
Summary
The aim of this review was to show the importance of nutrition in preschool age, to discuss recent dietary reference values, to present currently used methods of research on dietary intake and to show their application in the assessment of nutrition in preschool children. Current studies confirm the importance of nutrition in preschool age. Special recommendations on water and dietary fibre intake for Polish children should be worked out. Researchers use various methods of research. The authors of 69 publications assessed nutrition in preschool children. Qualitative assessment was the aim of 5 published researches. Assessment of the diet through laboratory analysis was used in 6 publications. Authors of 6 articles compared the results of the chemical analysis of food rations served in preschools with theoretical estimations of the nutrient values of the same food rations. Assessment of preschool menus, reports from preschool food stocks or combination of these two sources of information were used by the authors of 5 published researches. A 24-hour dietary recall was applied in 11 publications, a food frequency questionnaire in 4 publications, a food record in 9 publications, and a weighed food record in 7 publications. The authors of 7 published researches used various combinations of different methods to assess dietary intake in preschool children. The variety of the methods applied allows various aspects of nutrition in preschool age to be shown, but also makes it impossible to compare the results.

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