Abstract:
The research aims to identify the nutritional behavior of canned fish consumption for different study stages in Al-Dilam governorate. The research problem is canned fish consumption without knowing its nutritional value and the extent of the pollution to which it is exposed. To achieve the research objectives, the quantitative descriptive method was used to collect data that were collected from the students randomly. The sample size included 305 person. The research results indicate that (67.2%) of the total study sample were consuming tuna and they are the largest group, while (3.9%) were consuming sardines, (41%) of which were eating tuna sandwiches at home breakfast. It turns out that (43.6%) were eating canned tuna twice a week, and (29.8%) were eating canned tuna more than
four times a week. The sandwiches prepared at home were packaged as breakfast at school, it turns out that (41.3%) are through a plastic container, while (48.9%) were wrapping sandwiches in polyethylene (nylon bags). The results indicate that (43.3%) were eating it as breakfast at school, from which (14.8%) were eating the sandwiches prepared at home after 20 minutes and (36.4%) ate it after 2-4 hours. We advise for further studies to look for the nutritional value of canned fish, their content of contaminated materials, the percentage of contamination in canned foods and the extent of these materials' danger to achieve safe food for humans.
