Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Is the lunch from Mom or the school cafeteria healthier?

healthy school lunchesLunches packed at home are generally not as nutritious as school lunches, a new study shows.

Researchers compared more than 750 school meals with more than 560 packed meals given to pre-K and kindergarten students in three schools, analyzing them for nutritional value over five days.

“We found that packed lunches were of less nutritional quality than school lunches,” said lead researcher Alisha Farris, a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech University.

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