Uso da Ora-pro-nóbis adquirida através da agricultura familiar para utilização em preparações sem adição de açúcar

Abstract

Hunger in several parts of the world is a political issue to be resolved and that reached more than 47 million people in Latin America alone, in 2019. In contrast to this statistic of hunger in Latin America, Brazil has also been presenting in the last decade considerable increase in the percentage of obese people and/or with Diabetes Mellitus, which are two health conditions that can be controlled with a more natural, functional diet and with low sugar consumption. Brazil is a country with one of the greatest plant biodiversity in the world, among them the Unconventional Food Plants (PANC), which are easy to grow plants, containing high nutritional value and which can be used as food for thousands of families. Thus, the objective of this work was to study the use of PANC ora-pro-nóbis (Pereskia aculeata) acquired from family farming, to develop two culinary preparations without added sugar using PANC and to disseminate the way of preparing these recipes through videos education on social networks. These culinary preparations with PANC can be produced by family farmers and the community in general for their own consumption or commercialized, being a new source of income for this population. As it is rich in mucilage and has no residual flavor, ora-pro-nóbis provided good consistency and good palatability to Jelly and Brigadeiro. The two culinary preparations have also become interesting food options to increase the consumption of calcium and potassium from the diet.