Food / Education

Ensuring school lunches are healthy locally sourced options

13:36 pm on 18 February 2021

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The free school lunches should be made from locally sourced food and have an emphasis on being healthy.

Boyd Swinburn, who's a professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at Auckland University says the government's healthy school lunches programme should stay in local hands and not given to large corporate caterers to mass produce them.

He talks to Jesse about the impact that could have.

Photo: RNZ / Brad White