Nutritional Quality of School Meals in France

In France, school meals must comply with 15 frequency criteria expressed as nutritional requirements in a series of 20 consecutive meals. The goal of the study published in Nutrients was to assess the completion of the school meals to the criteria of the french food services guidelines. This study demonstrates that following that French school guidelines ensure good nutritional quality of food services and shows that generalizing the service of meals without meat or fish would deteriorate overall nutritional quality, highlighting the need to define the composition of vegetarian dishes and their frequency of service to children.

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