Investigación de los productos de la zona para la elaboración de un recetario vegetariano para el comedor del Colegio Adventista del Ecuador, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas 2015

Abstract

The objetive of this work was to investigate the highest selling products in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas for the implementation of a vegetarian recipe for the students as consumers of the dining room of Colegio Adventista of Ecuador (CADE) providing alternatives of nutritious and pleasant preparations addressed to the 40 internal students in the Institution. The type of research is descriptive because it describes the procedures used to perform the research. It is esploratory, because it determines the products of greatest pleasure in the students. It has a not experimental desing since the variables did not suffer any change. In order to collect the information, the most frequently sold products were investigated in the main markets of the city, in which the vegetables, fruit and tubers coincide in a 100% by the retailers as the highest selling products. The tastes and preferences were investigated also in the internal students of the CADE towards the food groups; and it was determined that legumes 74, 1% are more agreeable, fruit 61,53% while the less agreeable are the roots with 34,64% and the criterion that students have was also known with regard to preparations affered in the dining room. Subsequently, a vegetarian recipe based on the products of greatest pleasure in the students was elaborated, providing them with alternative of pleasing and nutritious preparations. The recipe book was validated whit a group of experts prior to delivery to CADE authorities, in which 100% of experts agree that the recipe book is excellent.