CREA - Research Centre for Food and Nutrition participates in the 12th National Food Waste Prevention Day
On February 5th, after a recreational-educational laboratory, three fourth grade classes of a primary school in Rome will compete in a fight against waste, in an activity that takes place within the CREA-FAN-ECO project, of the Programme ONFOODS.
Il CREA - Alimenti e Nutrizione aderisce alla “giornata di lotta allo spreco” con un’iniziativa che si svolge nell’ambito del progetto CREA-FAN-ECO, del Programma ONFOODS. In questa occasione, il 5 febbraio, il gruppo di lavoro del Progetto svolgerà un laboratorio ludico-didattico con tre classi dell’IC Via delle Azzorre di Roma, che a pranzo si sfideranno in una lotta allo spreco alimentare, a mensa. Alunni e alunne dovranno pesare gli scarti (se ci saranno) del contorno di fagiolini del menu del giorno della loro classe e - grazie a quanto imparato in classe la mattina stessa - potranno calcolare a quanto spreco di acqua equivale il cibo che non hanno mangiato. Potranno, inoltre, determinare a quanto questo spreco di acqua corrisponde in termini di minuti di rubinetto aperto. Impareranno così il concetto di IMPRONTA IDRICA degli alimenti, e nel frattempo si sensibilizzeranno sul problema degli SCARTI A MENSA.
CREA - Research Centre for Food and Nutrition joins the "day to fight waste" with an initiative that takes place within the CREA-FAN-ECO project of the ONFOODS Programme. On this occasion, on February 5, the Project working group will carry out a playful educational laboratory with three classes from the IC Via delle Azzorre in Rome, that will compete in a fight against food waste in the canteen at lunch. Pupils will have to weigh the waste (if any) of the green bean side dish from their class's menu of the day and - thanks to what they learned in class that morning - they will be able to calculate how much waste of water the food they didn't eat equates to. They will also be able to determine how much this waste of water corresponds to in terms of minutes of running the tap. They will thus learn the concept of the WATER FOOTPRINT of food, and in the meantime they will become aware of the problem of food waste in school canteens.
ONFOODS is a Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3 - Call for tender No. 341 of 15 March 2022 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU; Project code PE00000003, Concession Decree No. 1550 of 11 October 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, Project title “ON Foods - Research and innovation network on food and nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security - Working ON Foods”.