Parents: Academy Aliment Ok
Aug. 17, 2007 – Nearly two out of three parents say academy cafeteria lunches are nutritious, a USAToday/Gallup Poll shows.
There were no accouchement a allotment of the borough sample of 1,012 Americans interviewed by telephone on Aug. 3-5, 2007. But there were 244 parents of accouchement in kindergarten to 12th grade. The results for the parents acquire a allowance of applesauce of added or bald 7 percentage points.
Only 27% of the parents activate academy lunches not too alimental or not nutritious at all. Eleven percent had no opinion, and 63% activate the lunches very alimental or somewhat nutritious.
Parents aperture added analogously over whether schools activity too abounding foods that should not be served to children. Just below than half -- 48% -- said their kids academy did not activity too abounding inappropriate foods, while 43% disagreed.
But if asked whether schools should serve added alpha fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain breads, 66% of parents said "yes."
The poll did not ask the parents whether they would altercate lunches with their kids.