The issue of rejected food is becoming increasingly more topical. It is happening in the elementary schools too. Finding a solution must begin at the youngest. Therefore, in my thesis I tried to ascertain why the pupils do not always eat their snack or lunch and how the content on the nutrition influences their positions on rejected food. I am also interested if the school system sufficiently makes aware about this issue by including the contents on nutrition, and why this problem is increasing recently despite all the measures for diminishing the quantities of the rejected food. I used the descriptive and causal-non-experimental method. The pupils of the last triad of the Draga Bajca Vipava Elementary School (170 pupils), chef and diet planner were included into the research.
I discovered that the pupils of the school are generally satisfied with the served food, for they think that its quality and the taste are good. Therefore, they eat everything almost always. The reasons why they do not eat their food depend on the day individually. They sometimes leave their food on their plates because they do not like it, they do not always have enough time to eat it all, or there is too much food served.
With regards to the fact that making aware of the rejected food is increasingly more highlighted in schools, the pupils are appropriately informed about the rejected food. Therefore, their relationship towards the rejected food is positive and, due to the respect, the food does not end in the garbage. If the food is rejected, it is due to daily, current reasons, for it is hard to adjust the appropriateness of the food for all the pupils every day.
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