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🍎 As food service directors and student nutrition professionals, we’re not just serving meals; we’re laying the groundwork for lifelong health and learning. 📚💡 Every nutritious bite is a step toward brighter futures, empowering our students to thrive inside the classroom and beyond. Together, we can transform school nutrition into a powerful tool for building a healthier next generation. 🌟 Book a call with me today to discuss how we can bring your vision for student nutrition to life.

Breakfast provision should be part of a whole school approach to food and breakfast provision can have wider impacts beyond nutrition for children and young people. For example, supporting readiness to learn, increasing attendance, providing social interaction, as well as helping to establish healthy eating patterns. Find out more in the summary of our recent paper on the importance of breakfast for health and educational attainment in school-aged children supported by Magic Breakfast: https://lnkd.in/enJJsn5w

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Nutrition education is an important part of robust health education program which empowers children science-backed rationale for healthy food and beverage choices. This is something that should be part of educational system today. Our goal is to leverage technology to make food and health education easy for educators to integrate in schools K-12. Connect with us to learn more... #science #scienceoffood #nutritioneducation #foodeducation

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Are children's sweetness preferences and sweetness liking influenced by repeated exposure to sweetness? This is a question often asked but less studied. The study showed that 14 exposures to a sucrose-containing sweet or sour-tasting drink did not affect sweetness preference or liking in 4-7-year-old children. Read more below. #children #nutrition #sweetness #research

The fourth paper from the First Foods NZ study has just been published! By one of our super (now graduated) PhD students, Dr Neve McLean, showing no evidence of poorer iron status in infants using baby food pouches or baby-led weaning, although concerning levels of suboptimal iron status in the overall sample: https://lnkd.in/dJXQ7wKu

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Findings In this cross-sectional survey study with 1745 participants, 17% of graduate students and 13% of postdoctoral trainees experienced food insecurity during the academic year. Among graduate students, factors associated with food insecurity included belonging to a racial and ethnic minority group, receiving financial aid, and having housing instability; among postdoctoral trainees, these factors included receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, having housing instability, and not owning a car Question mark is What’s the situation in universities in non-industrialized countries?