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Episode 36: Reading Plate Waste
Inside School Food
English - April 06, 2015 14:46 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFood Arts Education inside school food heritage radio network laura stanley school nutrition education school food school lunch program food service industry institutional food interviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Amid widespread complaints about discarded school food, enter a new study that tells us things may be not as bad as they seem. Careful measurements of plate waste taken in twelve Connecticut schools in 2012, 2013, and 2014 tell a different story, of students eating better and wasting less as they adjust to changes on their lunch trays. Lead author Marlene Schwartz, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, unpacks this new data and reviews the study’s conclusions.