Freshfel defends EU school fruit scheme
The school fruit scheme is an important contribution to reverse the trend of increasing obesity rates among children. At present, there are 22 million overweight children in the EU of which 5.1 million are obese - an EU-wide trend set to make another 1.2 million children overweight and 300,000 obese each year. The SFS has proved to be a remarkable instrument to help children discover taste, texture and diversity of fruit and vegetables and increase consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables among kids. This can greatly help tackle the growing problem of child obesity in the EU.
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