Mapo-gu Specialist Nutritionist Small-scale Meal Service Nutrition Management

Mapo-gu Children and Social Welfare Facility Meal Management Support Center Specialist Nutritionist Visits Meal Sites for Inspection
Nutrition Education and Customized Menu Development, Children's Puppet Shows and Musicals for Proper Eating Habits Formation

Mapo-gu (Mayor Park Gang-su) is accelerating the installation and operation of the Mapo-gu Children and Social Welfare Facility Meal Management Support Center to improve the safety and quality of meals at children's meal sites and social welfare meal sites.

Unlike schools, infant and toddler meal services often lack a systematic meal system. Among elderly welfare facilities, most senior centers, which are the most numerous, operate meal services without nutritionists or cooks, making support for small-scale meal facilities urgently needed.

Accordingly, the Mapo-gu Center has set the vision of "Healthy life-cycle meals, happy and healthy city Mapo" and is promoting projects aimed at establishing a dietary management system that adds nutrition, safety, and social value, and improving the health of all Mapo-gu residents, including children and the elderly.

The target facilities are children's meal sites with fewer than 100 people and social welfare meal sites with fewer than 50 people, where employing a nutritionist is not mandatory.

Professional nutritionists at the Mapo-gu Center regularly visit meal sites to inspect hygiene and safety and provide nutrition management guidance.

In addition, they conduct on-site education on topics such as food poisoning prevention, personal hygiene, and dietary management for cooks, facility managers, directors, and children, and introduce nutrition-related information that can be practiced at home.

Furthermore, the Mapo-gu Center develops and distributes customized menus by age and disease for various groups such as children and the elderly to promote proper nutritional intake among the target groups.

As a specialized project, the center implements measures such as "Checking kitchen contamination (ATP measurement)" to ensure hygienic meal management and prevent cross-contamination, and plans to hold five puppet shows and musicals by October on the theme of fostering proper eating habits among children.

Park Gang-su, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, "We will do our best to ensure that children and social welfare facility users in the region can consume hygienic and nutritious food through continuous safety inspections of meal facilities and customized education."