Encrucijadas sobre ¿qué vender? máquinas expendedoras en entornos alimentarios universitarios

Translated title of the contribution: Crossroads about what to sell?: vending machines in university food environments

Alexandra Pava-Cárdenas, Patricia López-Ramírez, Alba Lucía Rueda Gómez, Pablo Alexander Reyes Gavilán

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

Introduction. Food and beverage vending machines (MEBA) are gaining presence in universities, which promotes weight gain in young adults. Objective. to recognize the configuration of the MEBA for the construction of a healthy food environment in a university in Colombia. Materials and methods. multimodal descriptive design, with an empirical approach of: interview with decision makers of the educational institution (n=6); analysis of sales during one year (n=12,955) in the MEBAs (n=12); characterization by nutritional density of the offer (n=152) and tracking of circulating communications associated with food. The analysis considered four moments: I-Relationships; II-MEBA Channel; III-Nutrition and IV-Interaction. I and II focused on the political, sociocultural, physical and economic components. The III studied the nutritional contribution of drinks and foods to integrate results in the IV. Results. the absence of a policy on institutional food such as communicative visibility seems to enhance social conditions that reinforce logics of: “necessary evil”, “already existing consumption profile”, “absence of academic exercises” and “negative experiences with healthy eating”. Foundations to offer with greater demand drinks such as soft drinks and water and, in food, chocolate in different formulations. In the classification by nutritional density, it was found that the drinks were classified as “unhealthy” (51.6%); “something healthy” (28.1%) and “healthy” (20.3%). “Somewhat healthy” foods (44.9%); “unhealthy” (32.2%) and “healthy” (22.9%). Conclusions. the university, a training space, requires efforts at sociocultural understanding, management aligned with health promotion regulations to influence the nutritional quality offered to the university community.

Translated title of the contributionCrossroads about what to sell?: vending machines in university food environments
Original languageSpanish
JournalArchivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion
Volume73
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2023

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Crossroads about what to sell? vending machines in university food environments'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this