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Healthy school lunches face tough taste test - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Students in Gainesville, Georgia, are likely eating a better lunch than you today. On the menu in their cafeterias? Chicken salad on a bed of spinach with strawberries and Mandarin oranges. Boneless wings. Brunch for lunch.
  • said Penny Fowler, the district's director of school nutrition. "They're your customers. It's like running a business."
  • "Taste testing is where it's at,"
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  • Gone are the days of mystery meats and grilled cheese on white bread. Instead, participating schools in the federal lunch program are required to serve skim or low-fat milk, add more whole grains, include a fruit and vegetable at each meal and prepare food with zero grams of trans fat per serving. Calorie and sodium limitations are also in place.
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  • The guidelines are too strict and the kids can leave," said Gina Sawma, the school district's food and nutrition director. "If they aren't eating with us, they're leaving and eating junk."
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school lunches in the US compared to other countries - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • It's estimated that 30.6 million students in the US get their lunches in the school cafeteria versus bringing it from home. And that's a problem: It's been found that students who eat school lunches are at a higher risk for being an unhealthy weight.
  • School cafeterias are one of the biggest areas of opportunity that exist in the battle against childhood obesity," the group said.
  • To get a better sense of how unhealthy food given to US schoolchildren really is, Sweetgreen researched what a school lunch looked like in eight other countries. The differences will surprise you.
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