Evaluation model of plate waste to monitor food consumption in two different catering settings


Submitted: 10 May 2013
Accepted: 16 November 2013
Published: 20 May 2014
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  • Stefano Saccares Centro Studi per la Sicurezza Alimentare, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Umberto Scognamiglio Nutritional Consultant, Ariccia (RM), Italy.
  • Catia Moroni Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Alessandra Marani Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Veronica Calcaterra Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Mariano Amendola Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Giulia Civitelli Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Maria Sofia Cattaruzza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
  • Arianna Ermenegildi Centro Studi per la Sicurezza Alimentare, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
  • Valeria Morena Centro Studi per la Sicurezza Alimentare, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Roma, Italy.
An increasing number of people regularly eats lunch away from home, using catering services. In this context, therefore, it is extremely important to improve the meals’ quality, remaining faithful to the principles of hygiene, nutritional and organoleptic quality and proper food handling. At the same time, it is necessary to promote food choices, nutritionally correct, by evaluations of appropriateness of menus. The study of food waste allows an evaluation of the nutritional habits of consumers and an important economic consideration of the costs incurred for the implementation of the service. This becomes even more important in some particularly sensitive groups, such as children and elderly. The purpose of this work is to test a model of semiquantitative evaluation of waste to monitor food consumption in two different catering contexts (educational and business), in order to improve the service for school students and other consumers.

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Saccares S, Scognamiglio U, Moroni C, Marani A, Calcaterra V, Amendola M, Civitelli G, Cattaruzza MS, Ermenegildi A, Morena V. Evaluation model of plate waste to monitor food consumption in two different catering settings. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2014 May 20 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];3(2). Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2014.1669

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