Nutr Res Pract.  2008 Jun;2(2):114-120.

Construction of web-based nutrition education contents and searching engine for usage of healthy menu of children

• Hong SM
• Lee TK
• Chung HJ
• Park HK
• Lee EJ
• Nam HS
• Jung SI
• Cho JY
• Lee JH
• Kim G
• Kim MC

Abstract

A diet habit, which is developed in childhood, lasts for a life time. In this sense, nutrition education and early exposure to healthy menus in childhood is important. Children these days have easy access to the internet. Thus, a web-based nutrition education program for children is an effective tool for nutrition education of children. This site provides the material of the nutrition education for children with characters which are personified nutrients. The 151 menus are stored in the site together with video script of the cooking process. The menus are classified by the criteria based on age, menu type and the ethnic origin of the menu. The site provides a search function. There are three kinds of search conditions which are key words, menu type and "between" expression of nutrients such as calorie and other nutrients. The site is developed with the operating system Windows 2003 Server, the web server ZEUS 5, development language JSP, and database management system Oracle 10 g.

Keyword

Web-based nutrition program; healthy menu; nutrition education

MeSH Terms

Child
Cooking
Database Management Systems
Food Habits
Humans
Internet

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Home page of the department of nutritional evaluation, Korea Food and Drug Administration (http://nutrition.kfda.go.kr)

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  Fig. 2 Page containing the information of menus for infants, children and adolescents

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  Fig. 3 The introduction of home page

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  Fig. 4 Cali and Friends page

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  Fig. 5 Nutrition safari page

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  Fig. 6 Nutrition café page

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  Fig. 7 Nutrition café page of "Protein village"

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  Fig. 8 Food tower page

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  Fig. 9 Guideline page of diet plan

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  Fig. 10 Guideline page of dietary reference intakes (DRIs)

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  Fig. 11 Guideline of nutrients daily value (DV)

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  Fig. 12 Guideline of nutrition labeling

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  Fig. 13 Page showing main dish list for infants

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  Fig. 14 Menu recipe sample

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  Fig. 15 Menu recipe with Video script

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  Fig. 16 Menu search page whose search condition is a pumpkin

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  Fig. 17 Result of search of pumpkin

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