From exotic, fresh, wholesome and nutritious vegetarian food to carbohydrate-rich low-in-good-quality-protein meals that characterize unhealthy processed food, the world’s 9 ‘developed’ countries – Spain, Ukraine, Greece, South Korea, Brazil, France, Finland, Italy, and the US – are serving various types of food to their school children for lunch. Sweetgreen, a chain of restaurants, recently released a series of school lunch comparisons showing how culture and geography affects the diversity and healthfulness of school lunches around the world.
Frankfurters and beans, baked potato, corn on the cob, pasta, fish, pea soup, carrots, beetroot salad, crusty roll, fish soup with tofu and rice, popcorn chicken, cookies, stir-fried pork with vegetables and baked chicken with stuffed grape leaves… these are just some of the lunches that school children from around the world feast on.
Several questions arise: which is the best-looking lunch and which is the unhealthiest? Which country is offering high-quality food? Who is serving a balanced, fresh diet? Take a look below:
CoNN: That last one seems to consist entirely of stuff you could pour out of a can/keep in a freezer…. Which of these countries is supposed to be the richest by the way….? Such irony….
I’m Italian and I can say that are school lunches do not look like that! Maybe in some rich private school, but not the public ones… Italian schools are falling apart!
Same in Brazil.
Same in France.
I totally agree with you, I’m Italian and none of my school lunches looked liked that.
They were mainly overcooked pasta, soup or fried fish fingers
That is exactly what US Lunches look like %99 of the time, at my school we have real food like once a semester, but that’s it
The school lunch for the US was not right either… they never get that much thanks to Michelle Obama. They have been reduced to half that.
Michelle Obama is the worst First Lady, I as a growing teen am starving from this outrageous decision, this is all her fault that children are fainting or withering because she is trying to stop obesity, it is not her choice for what goes inside me, she doesn’t not own me nor has the right to decide what I eat…
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
We are annonymous
I’m Brazilian and I can say our food is not like this, the kind of food is right but it will never looks like that! and you won’t have all this at the same day! Maybe in a rich school or going out to have lunch !
LOL in Canada there are no school lunches
Here is the full story:
http://www.naturalnews.com/048984_school_lunches_Third_World_starvation_diets.html
Im from Finland and I think our school lunches are actually better on average than the one in picture. It’s the same in every school and just to mention that it’s also completely free =)
so much for belgium
I guess these are just a sort of headlines in most schools without considering public or private schools. However I think that the Italy-Spain-Greece is the best trio since they share the same culinary traditions and also have a jack-of-all-trades nutritional value (assuming you’re eating what’s in the picture) and not just because I’m italian. Speaking of which, Scandinavia’s public care services can be better than others since all the population of Sweden, Norway, Danmark, Iceland and Finland summed up is nearly the population of Germany or France alone.
I am not blaming the American children but I wouldn’t be surprised if the healthiest thing they ate on that tray was the biscuit, then they went straight into the chicken nuggets with the tomato sauce and the fruit, peas and mash were no longer included, any school canteen that serves the shit in the pictures above needs a serious kick in the ass! Most of their food looks raw and stale! The only one I would feed to my dog if I had one is the one from Ukraine!
The USA lunch looks disgusting! When we were in school 1961-1974 in the USA we had actual cooks who prepared home made great food! It was all from scratch and it was always very good! The portions were never huge but adequate. By 1970 things had changed a little.. you could go to the ‘fast’ food lunch line which offered prepackaged sandwiches and more junk but the home made hot food line was still available…. We called the women in grade school who fixed all the food ‘The Lunch Ladies’…. they sure loved what they did… No GMO’s and processed crap! I’d hate to have to eat what these kids are being served in school today!
I imagine one of the most important distinctions between public school lunch in the USA vs. other countries is not just the quality of the food, but the act of cooking. American public schools still have kitchens but all they do is open cans, thaw frozen processed ‘food’ items, and maybe steam some vegetables on occasion. The federal government won’t pay for schools to buy flour, milk, and eggs to make pancakes–they pay for schools to buy frozen pancakes packed with toxic ingredients. Michelle Obama’s initiative is meaningless as her husband signs Farm Bills that continue to subsidize empty calories and sugar making our children fat and diabetic.
What retarded propaganda. I’d like to know EXACTLY where these foreign PRIVATE schools are.
its so sad because all the lunches look so healthy and yummy except for USA’s :(. I would Love to have all th lunches myself except for the last one.
This is a hoax. My kids lunches are very healthy and soda is not allowed.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/lunchphotos.asp
bring back the fresh made items you cook everyday, get rid of the processed food, come on the lunches here are discusting
I live in New Zealand where schools do not provide lunches, parents make them at home for the kids to bring. Some schools provide a free breakfast in the mornings for more unfortunate kids.