Two years ago, Changhua County’s Public Health Bureau conducted a study on the causes of obesity on campus. The study found five major problems with the lunch menus at schools and kindergartens: the refinement of staple foods leads to a shortage of wholegrain, the special meal on the Wednesday or Friday menu did not contain sufficient protein, too much processed food is used, vegetable servings are too small and the use of ingredients is repetitive. The county government’s Department of Education and the contracted food caterers teamed up to create a school lunch menu and a snack menu for children so that the next generation will enjoy healthier and more nutritious food.
Public Health Bureau Director Yeh Yen-po said that each school has different arrangements for their lunches. At some schools, the lunches are provided by catering companies while other schools have their own cooks. The 93 new meals that are now being promoted include a staple, a main dish, a side dish and a nutritious soup, and they also take the estimated cost of the meal into consideration. This is done to provide catering companies and kitchen staff with more options, to allow for more variety and to meet the nutritional needs of the students.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY PERRY SVENSSON)
Photo: Liu Hsiao-hsin, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記者劉曉欣
彰化衛生局前年進行「校園致胖環境調查」時發現,學校與幼兒園公告菜單有常見五大缺失,包括主食精緻化導致全穀偏低、每周三或周五特色餐蛋白質份量不足、加工調理再製品使用過多、蔬菜份量偏低、食材單調重複性高等等,所以集結教育處與餐盒契約商聯手,一起推出學校午餐與幼兒點心食譜,讓下一代吃得更健康營養。
衛生局長葉彥伯表示,各校營養午餐辦理情況不同,有的是由團膳業者供餐,有的是自理烹調,目前全新推出的九十三道食譜,包括主食、主菜、副菜與營養湯品在內,也把食材預估費用算進去,希望提供團膳業者與廚務人員更多的參考,可以改變菜色,也兼顧學童的營養需求。
(自由時報記者劉曉欣)
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