Rescate de alimentación y preparaciones ancestrales a través de la elaboración de una guía alimentaria en el cantón Tena. 2013.

Abstract

The lack of awareness of autochthonous foodstuff from towns and cultures, currently, doesn’t let to recognize the traditional ways of consumption and exploitation of nutritious virtues of each one of them. It is probable that in a few decades, its memories have been lost as well as knowledge. Then the main objective of this paper was to rescue ancestral foodstuff and preparations through the elaboration of a nutritious guide focused on the Kichwa nationality, which is located in Tena city. It was carried out by means of a descriptive, cross section, and non-experimental type study. A NAP (knowledge, aptitudes and practices) survey was applied directed to people chose at random; 86% of the surveyed population confirmed to know about foodstuff and preparation from the Kichwa nationality, among the most mentioned were: chonta, yucca, banana, chontacuro, but they didn’t know about their nutritional benefits. The rescue of ancestral foodstuff and preparation, which will be carried out through the practical guide, will be part of the people knowledge, since some of these foodstuff and preparations not only belong to the daily diet of cultures, but they also give a great nutritional contribution and they will be helpful as an specific diet in the feeding of a lot of physiopathology existing currently because of the bad life styles.