Authors : María Alejandra Aguirre Quezada; María de los Ángeles Estrella González; Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel; Pedro C. Martínez Suárez; Mercedes Magdalena Sarmiento Pesántez; Marina Cecilia Andrade Molina; Nancy Beatriz Cordero Zumba
Volume/Issue : Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 7 - July
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DOI : 10.38124/IJISRT20JUL224
Nursing children consume small amounts of
food, the quality is essential and determines the importance of the complementary feeding. Parents must
Access nutritional information objective to fix healthy
habits that prevent diet-related diseases. Quantitative,
correlational study of cross-section, participated 1760
boys and girls from one to three years of public child
care units of the cantons Azogues, Bible and Deleg. (919
boys and girls 841). The measurements were frequency
of consumption and eating behavior. The results of the
9.77% introduced foods other than breast milk at 4
months and the 62.26% did so at 6 months. Most consumed foods are rice, banana, chicken, broccoli, potato
and lentils with average equivalent to the common category and at least consumed quinoa, grape, the rabbit,
the zucchini and soy that are in any category. 86.82% of
researches say no selection for industrial cereal porridge feed. The results of this research are expected to
provide relevant information on the food pattern of
local children and enable child care institutions to provide specialized child nutrition support.
Keywords : Complementary feeding, Consumption, infants, breast milk