Food and nutritional education as an educational process: a study of practices and perceptions of a school community from Uberaba-MG

This paper, which has the Food and Nutrition Education (FNE) theme in the school premises, is linked to the "Educational Processes and their Fundamentals" research line, from the Uberaba University Postgraduate Program in Education. This research starts with the following question: how is it worked and what spaces does FNE occupy in the daily life of a City School considered as model of the city of Uberaba, MG? Its general objective is to understand the limits and possibilities of FNE in elementary education. Participants in the survey were children, teachers, school staff and family members of the school community. It was found that the school's contribution to FNE is reduced to the supply of healthy snacks and that for some adults, children's interest in artificial and industrialized food is an innate feature. It is concluded that even the FNE not being worked on in the school, there are spaces where this can be given - and those are not limited to the classroom alone.