Even before I started The Lunch
Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School
Food in America references to data showing that, on
average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lunch.
A Colorado State University research team found the
average student throws away more than a third of the
food on the
tray, most of that being fruits and vegetables.