Health warning on lunch boxes

Research carried out by the School Food Trust shows children taking a school meal are more likely to be eating vegetables and fruit and filling up on bread than children eating packed lunches.  The study, based on research in primary schools in Sheffield, found 64 per cent of packed lunches contained an unhealthy snack or item of confectionary, 28 per cent contained confectionary and a snack and 31 per cent contained a drink that did not meet the food-based standards introduced for schools in September last year.

(Guardian, p6, Rebecca Smithers, 4 col.”)