Tray Trends: This Year’s New Cafeteria Items
The beginning of the school year is a convenient time for cafeterias to tweak their menus and introduce new foods. So it's also the time when the food industry showcases all the new items it has cooked up for school lunchrooms. Last month, I attended the School Nutrition Association's annual ...
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August 26, 2009
Tray Trends: Bubble-Gum-Flavored Apples, and Other Sights at the SNA Food Show
Imagine if Las Vegas built a Costco-themed hotel with a particular emphasis on chicken nugget samples and then filled the building with lunch ladies. That's the best way I can describe the School Nutrition Association's annual food expo, which is taking place right now in Vegas' Mandalay Bay Convention Center. ...
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June 30, 2009
Focusing on the Tip of the Health Iceberg
By Susan Rubin — By limiting our conversation to obesity, we focus on calories and we forget about quality of food and ingredients. While childhood obesity grabs headlines every day, it’s important to consider other complications that result from poor quality food and drinks in our schools. Obesity is the tip of ...
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March 10, 2009
The Food Lobby and Child Nutrition
The American News Project takes a look at school lunch lobbying in a new YouTube video, which captures an Institute of Medicine hearing on nutrition standards. The USDA has asked the IOM to suggest evidence-based revisions to the National School Lunch Program nutrition regulations. But at the hearing in the ...
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February 22, 2009
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