Sentences with phrase «nutritional quality of food served»

Implementation of the policy was associated with improved school food environments by increasing the nutritional quality of foods served to children.

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Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Although the nutritional quality of meals is said to have improved, it also seems that many students are turned off by the choices and are refusing to eat the food served by the school.

In the years since then there has been a clear improvement in the nutritional quality of school food and a reduction in the amount of junk food being served in dinner halls across the country.

A campaign fronted by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver had already brought about changes to the quality of food served in English schools - but less than half of children actually ate them, with many preferring packed lunches of variable nutritional quality.