ArticlePublic health nutrition2015
Factors affecting fruit and vegetable school lunch waste in Wisconsin elementary schools participating in Farm to School programmes.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School Nutrition Environment and Services: Policies and Practices That Promote Healthy Eating Among K-12 Students.The Journal of school health · 2023Pooled it
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- Characteristics of successful primary school-based experiential nutrition programmes: a systematic literature review.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Farm to School Activities and Student Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Food Waste in the National School Lunch Program 1978-2015: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2017Pooled it
- Evaluating a Smoothie-Based Nutrition Education Program to Improve Nutrition Security in Rural Adolescents.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Farm to school programs in low-income, high minority K-12 schools in New Jersey before and after implementation of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2023Article
- Food Waste on Foodservice: An Overview through the Perspective of Sustainable Dimensions.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The addition of spices and herbs to vegetables in the National School Lunch Program increased vegetable intake at an urban, economically-underserved, and predominantly African-American high school.Food quality and preference · 2021Article
- Changes to dietary and health outcomes following implementation of the 2012 updated US Department of Agriculture school nutrition standards: analysis using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2016.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Preschool Healthy Food Policy Did Not Increase Percent of Food Wasted: Evidence from the Carolinas.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Food Trying and Liking Related to Grade Level and Meal Participation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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- Factors Related to Fruit and Vegetable Consumption at Lunch Among Elementary Students: A Scoping Review.Preventing chronic disease · 2018Article
- Younger Elementary School Students Waste More School Lunch Foods than Older Elementary School Students.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2017Article
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objectiveTo examine characteristics potentially associated with school lunch fruit and vegetable waste, both overall and pre/post implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
designMulti-year (2010-2013) cross-sectional study using pre- and post-meal digital photographs of students' school lunch trays to estimate fruit and vegetable availability and consumption. Fruit and vegetable items were categorized for factors suspected to impact waste: prior farm to school years, placement (main menu, salad bar), procurement (local, conventional), preparation (cooked, raw) and meal component (entrée, side, topping). Analyses to assess within-category differences in waste volume were performed using a Tobit model.
settingWisconsin elementary schools participating in farm to school programmes, USA. SUBJECTS: Children in third to fifth grade.
resultsMany within-factor differences were detected overall and/or across time. Cooked fruits were wasted less than raw, while cooked vegetables were wasted more than raw. Where identified, locally sourced items were wasted more than conventionally sourced (+0·1 cups, P<0·0001) and salad bar items more than main menu items (+0·01 cups, P<0·0001). Increasing prior farm to school years decreased waste (-0·02 cups, P<0·0001). Items previously tried were wasted at the same volume whether reported as liked or not. New school lunch meal pattern requirement implementation did not uniformly impact fruit and vegetable waste across all categories and there was no change in waste for seven of fifteen assessed categories.
conclusionsMany factors impact elementary students' school lunch waste. These factors may be helpful for school food-service authorities to consider when planning school menus.
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