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Availability of food and beverage items on school canteen menus and association with items purchased by children of primary-school age. | LitMetric

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study aimed to analyze the nutritional classification of foods and beverages in school canteens, focusing on high ('green'), moderate ('amber'), and low ('red') nutritional value items.
  • It assessed how much of these items were actually purchased by students and explored the relationship between what's available on menus and student purchasing behavior.
  • Results indicated that most menu items were either green or amber, with students favoring the amber items; an increase in the availability of any category led to a proportional increase in student purchases of those items, highlighting the importance of healthier options in school canteens.

Article Abstract

Objective: To (i) describe the proportion of foods and beverages available on school canteen menus classified as having high ('green'), moderate ('amber') or low ('red') nutritional value; (ii) describe the proportion of these items purchased by students; and (iii) examine the association between food and beverage availability on school canteen menus and food and beverage purchasing by students.

Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted as part of a larger randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Setting: A nested sample of fifty randomly selected government schools from the Hunter New England region of New South Wales, Australia, who had participated in an RCT of an intervention to improve the availability of healthy foods sold from school canteens, was approached to participate.

Subjects: School principals, canteen managers and students.

Results: The average proportion of green, amber and red items available on menus was 47·9, 47·4 and 4·7 %, respectively. The average proportion of green, amber and red items purchased by students was 30·1, 61·8 and 8·1 %, respectively. There was a significant positive relationship between the availability and purchasing of green (R 2=0·66), amber (R 2=0·57) and red menu items (R 2=0·61). In each case, a 1 % increase in the availability of items in these categories was associated with a 1·21, 1·35 and 1·67 % increase in purchasing of items of high, moderate and low nutritional value, respectively.

Conclusions: The findings provide support for school-based policies to improve the relative availability of healthy foods for sale in these settings.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10260897PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018001726DOI Listing

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