Reflections on food practices in quilombola communities and the impacts of racism on the invisibilization of knowledge

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Summary

His study brings reflections on the importance of traditional eating practices in the field of public health and the impacts of racism on the process of invisibility of this knowledge. The theoretical framework was collected from the lilacs, Sciello, Pubmed, Google scholar database, the expressions used were: “health in quilombola communities” with 87 findings, “food habits of quilombola communities” 4 findings, “Food and Nutritional Security (SAN ) in quilombola communities” with 10 articles and Food Practices in quilombola communities with 5 articles, and in this last search articles were found in common with the two previous titles, with no dissociation between “habits and practices”. The few articles found regarding food practices in quilombola communities corroborate the biomedical model of training health professionals, which encourages the production of ethnocentric knowledge and makes traditional knowledge invisible. Food of agricultural origin is the main source of income for residents of the quilombola community, among the cultivated foods we have: Beans, Mangalô, Andu, Aipim, Corn, genipap, potatoes, peanuts, vegetables, among others, and their derivatives are produced both for domestic consumption and for sale. We conclude that racism presents itself in different ways and the new generations of professionals and students, in addition to combating racism, must also counter-colonize the myth of racial democracy through scientific studies that prove the relevance of traditional knowledge in the field of health, with the purpose of valuing and rescuing this knowledge from traditional peoples.