Development of complementary organic foods for children

• Grant number: 03/07518-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: May 01, 2004
• End date: October 31, 2004
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Rogério Lopes Vieites
• Grantee: Rogério Lopes Vieites
• Company: Refazenda Grumo Manufatura e Comércio de Gêneros Alimentícios Ltda
• City: Botucatu

Abstract

Fruit and vegetables are the main source of vitamins and obligatory ingredients on any nutritionally balanced menu, including that of children. The objective of the present work is to produce six commercial types of complementary organic foods for infants, with quality nutritional, sensory and microbiological standards and with long shelf life. It should be stressed that organic agriculture is a broad and varied spectrum of practices with biologically and ecologically correct principles. In the preparation of these foods, products of vegetable origin will be used, such as squash, white rice, sweet banana, beetroot, broccoli, carrot, spinach, beans, yam, lima orange, papaya and cassava, cultivated in the region of Botucatu (SP). Subsequently, nutritional and centesimal analyses will be performed, sensory evaluation using the Moraes (1985) guidelines, and microbiological analysis in relation to the parameters required by RDC nº 12, a resolution adopted by the National Agency for Health Vigilance (Anvisa), in addition to the enumeration of moulds and yeast and the standardized heterotroph counts. The commercialization of these products should be handled by several grocery chains, located in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro. (AU)