National Policies to Limit Nutrients, Ingredients, or Categories of Concern in School Meals: A Global Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: The school food environment is a key intervention point for influencing children's and adolescents' diets. As more countries establish school meal programs to provide critical nourishment to students, establishing standards for the foods served can increase the consumption of key nutrients and limit the consumption of foods that do not build health. This global scoping review explores the prevalence and basic characteristics of national policies that regulate food served through school meals across 193 countries, particularly by restricting the provision of categories, nutrients, or ingredients of nutritional concern. We gathered evidence from policy databases, grey literature, peer-reviewed literature, and primary policy documents. We included nationally mandated policies that included re

SUBMITTER: Busey EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11490762 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature