Packing lunch for school? Our 14 best tips will ensure your child has a healthy, safe, allergen-free meal full of vitamins, fiber, calcium, and protein.
The cereal aisle is full of brightly colored boxes and flashy marketing…and many kids are full of opinions. Here are 7 tips to help you wade through your supermarket’s sea of cereal boxes together and choose a winner that’s rich in whole grains, not too sugary, free of food dyes, and kid friendly. We've included a list of more than two dozen healthy cereals for kids that fit the bill.
CSPI appreciates FDA’s efforts to encourage manufacturers to leverage food labels for the purpose of nutrition education with this draft guidance for industry titled "Questions and Answers About Dietary Guidance Statements in Food Labeling."
In this draft guidance, FDA establishes a new category of claims for food labeling (“Dietary Guidance Statements”) and defines Dietary Guidance Statements as statements in food labeling that “represent or suggest that an individual food or food group may contribute to or help maintain a nutritious dietary pattern” and provides examples of Dietary Guidance Statements.
At Humboldt Unified School District (HUSD), Director of Nutrition Jody Buckle, District Nutritionist Pamela Liuzzo and their hardworking staff have been implementing nutritious, whole-grain-rich meals at the schools in their district for years.
At Cypress School District, Director of Child Nutrition Parisa Shukla, MDA, RD, SNS and her excellent staff have been providing a wide variety of 100 percent whole-grain rich meals to students for over four years. With a 40 percent increase in lunch participation since the start of the pandemic, even more students can enjoy nutrient dense, delicious meals at school every day.
Are these the 10 best foods? Nope, but they're 10 of the best foods. In fact, there are plenty more healthy staples. Almost any fruit or vegetable or bean is a winner. Enjoy!
CSPI submits these comments in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Child Nutrition Programs: Transitional Standards for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium” final rule (87 FR 6984), which will provide necessary flexibility to schools for SY 2022-2023 and SY 2023-2024 as they respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. CSPI urges the USDA to align school meals with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, particularly with respect to added sugars, sodium, and whole grains in the rulemaking expected later this year.
The following table displays examples of K-12 products that are whole grain-rich, based on an analysis conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) of select companies' K-12 portfolios in 2021.
