I like to browse the Food Navigator's articles every week. This week I found an article on the Campbell's company. The article is about changing their formula in order to make it available to school children. Right now, the regular Campbell's soup formula does not have enough nutrition to serve in early childhood places. I can't serve their soups and have it count as a food.
The new formula still includes transfats and has a high sodium of 480 mg per serving.
The other foods I am not allowed to serve are boxed macaroni and cheese and canned spaghetti. These foods do not have enough nutrition to count as "food." Mostly they are bulk calories and contribute to obesity in children. One parent told me once, "But she will eat it." This is not a good reason to serve a non food item to children. Years of eating these kinds of foods will increase holes in the intestines which is called diaviticulosis. This increases the cause and potential for bowel disease.
For more on the article go HERE.
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