Na#onal

Cancer Ins#tute José Alencar Gomes da Silva

Preven#on and Vigilance Coordina#on
The Food, Nutri#on and Cancer Technical Unit

Supporting consumption of fruits and

vegetables in Brazil
Isabela Sattamini
Maria Eduarda L D Melo
 This presentation sections include:

Ø Our Ins#tute and Technical Unit’s purposes

Ø Consump#on of fruits and vegetables in Brazil
Ø Na#onal and INCA’s recommenda#on
Ø Ac#ons on fruits and vegetables promo#on
Ø unfolding among different states of the country

 National Cancer Institute José
Alencar Gomes da Silva / Ministry
of Healthy

Mission: To promote the control of cancer with

na#onal integrated ac#ons in preven#on, care,
educa#on and research
 The Food, Nutrition and Cancer
Technical Unit
Prevention and Vigilance
Coordination
Develops ac#ons and par#cipates in policies
that promote healthy dietary prac#ces that
favour the preven#on and control of cancer
 Consumption of fruits and vegetables in
adults in Brasil

Increases from 33% in 2008 to 35,2% in 2016
(consump#on of F&V in 5 or more days a week)
S#ll below
recommenda#ons
 F&V consumption among adolescents in
Brazil

Consumed 5 or more days on the previous
week:
•  13 to 15yo
–  Fresh fruits: 32,5%
–  Legumes: 37,7%
–  Beans: 60,7%

 F&V promotion

F&V offer in
ins#tu#onal
environments

Community Regula#on
ac#on and control

Actions:
•  Incentive
Food and nutri#on Public policies •  Support
educa#on directed to F&V •  Protection

Brazilian recommendations

Natural or
minimally
processed foods,
of different types
and in large
varie#es, and
predominantly of
plant origin, are
the basis of
healthy diets
 INCA’s F&V recommendations

400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day per

person for cancer preven#on
meaning 5 por#ons of 80 grams of each food
INCA’s actions on
F&V promotion
Incentive Actions
Health Warehouse

Interac#ve ac#vity
where people
simulate a purchase
and then their
choices are
discussed with
nutri#onists
Dissemination of educational videos in
social media and institutional channels

 Our website
www.inca.gov.br/alimentacao
Recommendation n4 of Summary
of Evidences

“Seek to vary foods of plant

origin and make them the
basis of your diet”
Widely distributed materials in state,
municipal and local actions

 Training Workshop

Focused on health professionals in the

Brazilian states, and now expanding to
civil society organisa#ons, it
culminates in several mul#plica#on
ac#ons gathered in the Collec#on of
Mul#plica#on Experiences
 Some of the
multiplication actions
 Action on prostate cancer prevention,
Lagoa do Carro, Pernambuco
Local fruits were
acquired and
offered during
the educa#onal
ac#on on
healthy diet and
the importance
of F&V
consump#on
 “I love fruits”, Coruripe, Alagoas

Different
colours of
fruits and
benefits
educa#on
ac#on
Culinary Workshop, Pará

 Nutrition education in Palmeira dos
Índios, Alagoas
Emphasis on fruits
and vegetables
consump#on as
crucial for health
protec#on
 Support actions

Health Ministry ordinance no1.274, 7 July 2016

“Provides for the ac#ons of Healthy Food
Promo#on in the work environment on the Health
Ministry and related en##es alloca#ons”

“Canteens, cafeterias and restaurants
should comply with
Brazilian Dietary Guidelines
recommenda#ons”
 Support Actions

Healthy menus on INCA’s events, with wide offer of

F&V
 Brazil has several interministerial
ini#a#ves to promote the
consump#on of fruits and vegetables
focused on produc#on, access and
consump#on
 Family Agriculture Food Acquisition Program

It uses commercializa#on mechanisms that

favour the direct acquisi#on of products
from family farmers or their organiza#ons,
s#mula#ng local produc#on and
consump#on, increasing access to fruits
and vegetables and suppor#ng producers
throughout the agrifood system
National School Health Programme

Na#onal Strategic Ac#on for Scholar’s

Health
•  Healthy food in schools meals
•  Healthy food promo#on and physical
ac#vity
 Food Security National Plan – agreed
goals
Ø Challenge 6.4: Promote the supply and regular and
permanent access of the popula#on to adequate and
healthy food
Ø  Improve informa#on systems of F&V produc#on

Ø Challenge 6.5: (...) Food and Nutri#on strategies and

regula#on measures
Ø  School environment: annual report on F&V and ultra-processed offer
Thank you


Isabela Sa;amini
isabelasa;amini@usp.br

Maria Eduarda Melo
maria.melo@inca.gov.br