Approximately
60% of the more than 50 million public elementary and secondary education
students obtain a substantial portion of their daily calories from school
lunches. Researchers from Virginia Tech recently compared school lunches with
packed lunches and found that school lunches have greater nutritional quality.
Specifically, they found that both packed and school lunches almost
entirely met nutrition standards, except school lunches were below energy and
iron recommendations, while packed lunches exceeded fat and saturated fat
recommendations. The findings suggest that nutrition education programs
targeting children, parents, and perhaps even school policy should be
encouraged to promote healthier packed lunches.
Source: Rudd
Center, 11/3/14, School
Lunch
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