Kids' Breakfasts Around the World Lack Adequate Nutrients
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
The 'Food, Medicine and Health' column in the March 2011 Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists suggests that assessments of kids' breakfasts worldwide are often high in sugar and saturated fat and low in dietary fiber and lack essential vitamins and minerals. The global diversity in breakfast composition and the frequency of breakfast consumption appear to present significant public health challenges and personal health consequences.