Fried Food banned and other food news in the UK
Jamie Oliver is super cute and his school dinners program is working even though BBC news reports that students are “shunning” healthier meals. Since the start of the move to healthier meals there’s been a huge drop in students eating school meals, especially at the secondary level. But Oliver is not discouraged. He forecasts that “we’ll see that negative turn into a positive”.
…They found 32% of children eating five portions of fruit and vegetables in 2004, compared with 44% of children in the 2006 study.
The researchers observed: “It should be noted that the largest increase was in vegetable consumption, not fruit, which may indicate that changes in school meals had a greater impact.”
…Children eating school lunches ate “significantly” more vegetables at lunchtime (0.94 of a portion) compared to those with packed lunches (0.18 of a portion).
For further proof that Oliver’s school meals are a success, fried foods will be banned from Walsall school menus.
…Councillor Zahid Ali, Walsall Council cabinet member for children’s services, said: “I’m afraid that deep fat friers have had their chips at Walsall schools.
“We have gradually been phasing out fried food and I’m pleased to say that our menus will be fried food free when children return to school.
In other UK food news, organic food sales were up 22% in 2006 and children think “chips grow on farms.” A new survey shows 1 in 20 children believe chips grow on farms, 7 percent thought chicken kievs grew on farms and 6 percent did not believe milk was produced in farms. The good news is that looking at the figures a vast majority of British children know exactly where their food comes from. I fear that US numbers would actually be worse, considering how little our urban children know of life outside their neighborhoods.
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