ArticleNutrients2021
The Promotions of Sustainable Lunch Meals in School Feeding Programs: The Case of Italy.
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- Toward Sustainable Diets-Interventions and Perceptions Among Adolescents: A Scoping Review.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
- Children's and adolescents' lifestyle factors associated with physical activity in five Mediterranean countries: the DELICIOUS project.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Nutritional, environmental and economic implications of children plate waste at school: a comparison between two Italian case studies.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Food Neophobia Occurrence in Children: A Study Carried out in Italy.Nutrients · 2023Article
- What is on plates for school meals: focusing on animal- vs. plant-based protein foods.Nutrition research and practice · 2023Article
- School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review.Health promotion international · 2023Article
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- Number of meal components, nutritional guidelines, vegetarian meals, avoiding ruminant meat: what is the best trade-off for improving school meal sustainability?European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
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- Sustainability Recommendations and Practices in School Feeding: A Systematic Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The carbon footprint of Italian schools meals: An optimal choice of dishes in vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous menus.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
School is considered a privileged environment for health education and school feeding represents an opportunity for promoting sustainable foods to young generations. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that is possible to select, from existing school menus, recipes that combine healthy foods with low environmental impact. A national sample of Italian school menus was collected and a total number of 194 recipes were included on a database containing 70 first courses, 83 s courses, 39 side dishes, 1 portion of fruit, and 1 portion of bread. A mathematical model was conceived to combine nutritional adequacy and acceptability criteria while minimizing GHGs emissions. The result is a four-week menu characterized by large vegetable components that were used not only as side dishes but also as ingredients in the first and second courses. Legumes and pasta are often included, and white meat is selected instead of red meat. The findings presented in this paper demonstrated that it is possible to design environmental-friendly meals from existing school menus. The mathematical model developed in this work has the potentiality of being completely scalable, easily updatable, and widely utilizable in different settings either for design or monitoring purposes as well as for research data collection.
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