Investigation the nutrition habits of individuals in Thrace region in the COVID-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a changes in daily living habits. In this study, changing eating habits during the Covid-19 pandemic period were investigated. The study was carried out with the participation of an online questionnaire of 1023 people living in the Thrace region. The demographic results obtained by using the survey technique and the nutritional habits during the Covid-19 process are as follows, participants (64.3%) are female, average age 37.30 ± 11.96, height weight index (BMI) average 25.46 ± 4.62 65.4% of the participants were from Istanbul Europe, 31.3% had blood type A RH +, 29.6% had an income between 3000-4000 TL, 49.1% were university graduates, 46% 7 of them do not use tobacco products, 47% do not use alcohol, 33.5% drink 5-7 glasses of water daily, 47.8% do not do sports, 61.97% do not have a chronic illness. In addition, 17.8% of the participants caught the Covid-19 epidemic, and 44.9% had the Covid-19 test. 2% of the participants (20 participants) are vegetarian, 2.7% (28 participants) are vegan. 51.5% of the participants eat 3 meals a day, 24.4% do not skip meals, 43.99% prefer fruit between meals, 43.2% eat 1-2 days a week (Red, While consuming white meat, fish meat, soudjouk, bacon, salami, sausage, 72.1% of them are dairy products and other animal products every day, 66.5% are cereal products every day, 49.5% vegetables and fruits, 26.4% of them consumed dried nuts 3-4 days a week, 71% consumed oil every day and mostly oil and olive oil. 23.7% of the participants consume snacks and fast food 1-2 days a week, and 52.98% prefer fast food because it is delicious. While 80.1% of the participants consume non-alcoholic beverages every day, black tea is the most consumed. 21.3% of the participants do not consume ready meals from outside, 11.5% do not consume closed packaged products (biscuits, crackers, chips, ready-to-eat packaged foods); 43.4% of them claimed that they have a little health nutrition. 49.3% of the participants eat at normal speed. During the Covid-19 pandemic process, water (43.1%), vegetable-fruit (fresh-dried) (40.6%), onion-garlic (38.1%), yogurt (36.6%), nuts (31%) 4) are among the foods consumed more. During the Covid-19 pandemic period, bread comes first with 29.7% of the foods whose consumption has decreased. Participants before Covid-19; 29.3% less cake-pie-cookie and 18.1% less pastry-pastry. According to the analysis results, significant differences were found between tobacco use, exercising, number of meals, using vitamin supplements, drinking water and being vegetarian and Covid-19. There is a significant difference between tobacco product use, daily water consumption and to the speed of eating and BMI values (p <0.05), also a significant difference was found between daily water consumption and diabetes (p<0,05).With this study, important results were obtained regarding Covid-19 and dietary habits.