Fat and calories put back on nursery menus

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 10 April 2008

Nurseries have altered their menus after they were found to be offering children too little fat.

A Trading Standards team from East Sussex County Council conducted a survey of the meals and snacks fed to under-fives at ten anonymous nurseries in the county. They found that food at only two of the nurseries provided adequate fat and only three provided adequate energy, while all the nursery menus failed to meet the appropriate requirement for iron. The officers also found there was a tendency to apply healthy eating policies designed for school-age children to the nursery age group, while food portion sizes were often too large. The survey...

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