Abstract
Food and Nutrition Education is the field of knowledge that takes into account the representations about eating and food, knowledge and values of food, with a view to the autonomy of choice of subjects in matters related to food and nutrition. This text is the result of a theoretical research aimed at identifying the trajectory of Food and Nutritional Education in Brazil, which outlined it as a field of knowledge. The current policies of this field of knowledge are the result of overcoming a past where educational approaches focused on food predominated that took place in a decontextualized, normative and strictly biological way. This trajectory involves disputes in its theory and practice that show that the resolution of the food problem in Brazil is permeated by a profound economic and social restructuring. We highlight the need for the practices of Food and Nutrition Education to be guided by the critical and emancipatory perspective of education.
Keywords:
food and nutritional education; nutrition and food programs and policies; health education