Bagged apples in New York schools

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Apr 7th 2006 @ 10:02PM

bagged apple? Food in elementary schools has been quite the hot topic lately, with questions about nutrition in school lunches, and even the proposed legislation to ban all "bad" snacks from school grounds. This week in a conference in New York, the Executive Director of food for the city's schools presented apples slices packaged in plastic bags. He said they were the school's effort at making food healthier.

However, the apples are meant to have a long shelf-life in the bags, so they are injected with a preservative. Additionally, the apples come in plastic packages, which have to be disposed of, that have images of bagged apples on trees. Bagged apples don't grow on trees.

Whatever happened to the idea that maybe school children could just eat...an apple?

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