Socialization of Healthy Cooking Food to Maintain Nutrition to Achieve Ideal Weight and Height

Socialization of Healthy Cooking Food to Maintain Nutrition to Achieve Ideal Weight and Height in Children

Dani Setia Heno1, Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto2

1 Departemen Manajemen Industri Katering, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia

2 Departemen Pendidikan Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia

*Corresponding Author: danisetiaheno3@upi.edu

ABSTRACTS

This study aims to determine the effect of socialization of healthy food education to help maintain nutrition in food in order to achieve ideal body weight in children in Cigugur Girang Village, Parongpong, Indonesia. The study was conducted on 10 residents of the village of Cigugur Girang Parongpong, Indonesia. The age range of the respondents is 20-40 years. Respondents consisted of 1 male and 9 female. The research was conducted in 3 stages, namely (i) pre-test; (ii) education through PowerPoint media; and (iii) post-test. The pre-test average was 43.5 and the post-test average was 99.5. The comparison of pre-test and post-test showed an increase in respondents' knowledge after taking action. The results of the N-Gain calculation show that the average N-Gain value is 56.5% (N-Gain > 40%) indicating that power point media is an effective way of educating healthy food cooking for the community. The community's pre-test scores are already very good, knowledge about healthy food is known to the public. Based on the results of the t-test, it is known that T count (-6.35) < T table (2.26). The students' post-test scores increased significantly. Thus, with the completion of this research, it is hoped that many people will know about how to cook food in a healthy way to preserve food and children can reach their ideal weight and height. 

Keywords: Cooking techniques, Healthy cooking, Nutritional content, Ideal weight and height, Children's health.

INTRODUCTION

Cooking is a process of handling food ingredients from raw to ready to eat food ingredients which in the process occurs the application of temperature which aims to make food easier to digest in our bodies Healthy cooking techniques are how to create delicious dishes without sacrificing the nutritional content of the food, or without adding excessively less important elements in cooking, such as saturated fat, salt, or flavouring. To create healthy food, proper cooking techniques are needed to maintain the nutritional content of food. The temperature of food storage and processing is an important point that we must pay attention to so that the quality of food and its nutritional content is maintained (Minantyo, 2011). 

Danger zone or referred to as the danger zone is an important term for storing food so that cases of food poisoning do not occur. The temperature of food storage and processing is an important point that we must pay attention to so that the quality of food and its nutritional content is maintained. Danger zone or referred to as the danger zone is an important term for storing food so that cases of food poisoning do not occur. Danger zone or danger zone is storing food in a temperature range between 5 to 60 degrees celsius (Elis, 2021).