The educational effects of teaching to have children eat beans and the relationship between the intake frequencies of beans, etc. and children's healthy situations

Abstract

Teaching a good cooking practice using beans was carried out for fourth and fifth graders in an elementary school. Before and after the teaching, questionnaire surveys were conducted among the teaching group (   children) and the control group (   children). The educational effects and the relationship between the intake fre-quencies of beans, etc., and the children's healthy situations were investigated using these surveys. The results were as follows. ）In the teaching group, after the teaching, the children's taste for beans and their will to eat beans were significantly improved and the intake frequency of beans at home showed a tendency to increase compared to the control group. ）It was suggested that if the children felt that the beans were delicious by cook-ing and their taste for beans was improved, their beans intake would also increase.