Describing Food Availability in Schools Using Different Healthy Eating Guidelines: Moving Forward with Simpler Nutrition Recommendations.

CONCLUSIONS: Dietitians have a role to support interpretation of classification systems for school nutrition policies. The nutrient-based classification used in the policy permitted some items not essential to a healthy diet as defined by the Extra food-based classification. However, the food-based Core/Extra categorization had less detail to classify nutrients. PMID: 30280920 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research - Category: Nutrition Authors: Tags: Can J Diet Pract Res Source Type: research