Contribution of healthy and unhealthy primary school meals to greenhouse gas emissions in England: linking nutritional data and greenhouse gas emission data of diets.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

School meals represent the largest sector in Government food procurement in the United Kingdom. This paper aims to quantify, simultaneously, the nutritional quality and carbon footprint of meals provided by primary schools in England.

Subjects/methods

The School Food Trust conducted the 'Primary School Food Survey 2009' in a nationally representative sample of 139 primary schools in England. The survey included 6690 students who consumed school lunches and 3488 students who brought packed lunches. We estimated the total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) per Kg of the food items contributing to those lunches based on the results of a systematic review of life-cycle analyses.

Results

In both school lunches and packed lunches, the 'meat, fish and alt

SUBMITTER: Wickramasinghe KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5040506 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature