Government to review nutritional value of school meals after worries about processed foods

A schoolchild eating a meal at Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann. The HSE’s National Clinical Lead for Obesity said  that 'some of the major providers are providing foods that we know increase obesity risk and we just need to do better'. File picture: Dan Linehan

The Government is to review the nutritional value of the meals given to schoolchildren as it is expanded to every primary school in the country.

As of this week, an additional 131,700 children across 713 primary schools will receive a hot meal every day. This brings the total number of children benefiting from the programme to 475,000.