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Kraft Heinz announced on Tuesday that its Lunchables brand meal kits are being removed from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
 
The company created two of its Lunchables—Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Stackers and Extra Cheesy Pizza Lunchables—to be introduced at the beginning of the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Kraft Heinz described in a document that the Lunchables products are “built for schools” and “now meet NSLP” guidelines.
 
The NSLP program receives funding through federal reimbursements to provide free and reduced-cost meals for nearly 30 million school children from low-income families, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.
Earlier this year, Consumer Reports discovered that Lunchables and similar lunch kits contain “relatively high” levels of sodium, lead, and cadmium. The nonprofit organization reported that the Lunchable meal kits contained more lead than meal kits made by other companies.
 
Consumer Reports also highlighted that the Lunchables school version had higher sodium levels than the store-bought version. The school version of turkey and cheddar Lunchables contained 930 milligrams of sodium compared to 740 milligrams in the store-bought version, according to the report. Similarly, the Lunchables pizza kit for schools had 700 milligrams of sodium compared to 510 milligrams in the store version.
 
Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union garnered nearly 50,000 signatures for their petition and presented their case to the Department of Agriculture urging the agency to remove Lunchables from the school lunch program.
https://www.ntd.com/kraft-heinz-removes ... dium=email

my first question is why? why are they even there in the first place? SMFH...