{"id":7641,"date":"2017-06-15T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/general\/news-for-early-childhood-education\/nutrition-food-childcare\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:11:36","slug":"nutrition-food-childcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/public\/news-and-views\/stories\/nutrition-food-childcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Provided in ECE Centres Falls Short on Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Food nutrition. June 15, 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many early childhood education centres serving food to children do not have menus that meet nutritional guidelines, according to new research from the University of Auckland’s Centre for Longitudinal Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers collected menus in an online survey of 257 licensed childcare centres in Auckland and Waikato. Only menus that comprised lunch plus two or more other snacks or meals each day for five days were included in the analysis. These were compared with requirements for half of a child\u2019s recommended daily intake and variety of foods across the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n