Saturated fat and added sugars still too high in children’s packed lunches

Packed lunches of primary school children still remain poor in nutritional quality with lower levels of vitamins and minerals than decade ago, new research reveals. A repeat analysis of nutritional content, published in the online journal BMJ Open, found that the percentage of packed lunches meeting food standards rose to just 1.6% in 2016 from just over 1% in 2006. Since 2006, steps have been taken to improve the nutritional quality of school meals in England, with schools obliged to stick to a set of standards on what can be included. But no such rules exist for packed lunches. And because more than half