Scientific literacy in human nutrition: intersections and divergences

• Main Authors: Valéria Brumaro Regina Fornazari, Ana Tyiomi Obara
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Pará 2018-10-01
• Series: Amazônia
• Subjects: alimentação; ensino de aprendizagem; estado da arte
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/revistaamazonia/article/view/5291

This article aims to present a literature review on nutrition literacy as a probability for the teaching of science. Therefore, an extensive search was performed in the main national and international databases. The key words used were - in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish - scientific literacy, nutrition literacy and health literacy, revealing that literacy in nutrition, has as basis to enable the individual to develop autonomy and criticality in relation to nutrition knowledge in order to make individual and collective decisions regarding the formation of eating habits and quality of life.