Nutrition Management and Support Effect of Food Service at Home Childcare Center

Abstract

The goal of this study was to investigate current nutritional management status of meals served at home
childcare center and the degree of improvement and the change of salt salinity after the support by the Center
for Children’s Foodservice Management (CCFM). The result showed that the mean compliance rate of all
14 items was 76.1% among which the items that were rated lower than the average was. Among the items
that were rated lower than the average, 0.7% answered yes to “Does the center check the soup’s salinity at
cooking?”, 28.0% for “Does the center cook by reading the standard recipe?”, 32.7% for “Does the center
provide alternative food to infants with food allergy?” 363.3% for Does the center natural seasoning during
cooking’, 73.3% replied yes to ‘Does the center utilize special diet such as low-salt diet, low-end diet?’, etc. The
improvement in providing alternative foods to infants and children with allergies after one nutritional support
did not show significant change. However, the mean scores of all four domains increased significantly (p <0.05,
p <0.001), and the overall mean score increased significantly from 70.43 to 75.79 (p <0.001).58 (50.4%) of 0.3
~ 0.5% of the nursery schools were the most with the change in salinity after the nutritional support for lunch,
while 59childcare center (49.5% reduced to 38(33.1%) which were more than 0.5%. The mean salinity of the
nursing homes in the study was significantly reduced from 0.53% to 0.45% (p <0.01) measured in the childcare
center. The results of this study made sure that the nutritional management of the home childcare center was
improved after the service of the child care center. However, there were some items that could not be improved
only with one nutritional support, and there were many nurseries that did not improve with the salinity of the
soup. Therefore, the Children’s Food Service Support Center will continue to provide nutritional support for
home childcare centers, and more home childcare centers will need to increase resources and opportunities to
benefit from the Center for Children’s Foodservice Management.