School Canteens Are Going To Have To Get A Lot Healthier With These Important New Rules

Good news for parents, bad news for most kids who’ve come to love unhealthy school dinners, new nutritional guidelines soon to be updated are going to mean an enforcement of healthy cafeteria foods from now on.

The Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality will soon update the nutritional guidelines

Before the new guidelines are set, the Dubai Municipality will meet with strategic partners to consider areas for improvement.

Childhood obesity is a challenge facing the 21st century according to Noura Abdulla Al Shamsi, Head of Permits and Applied Nutrition Section, “a disease which continues from childhood into adulthood and which is largely attributed to the lifestyle in the country and choosing of foods high in calories and low nutritional value with easy access to them and poor nutritional culture”. Tackling the health content of food in school canteens is a brilliant and necessary step in order to overcome the issue.

Children’s nutrition is an important part of the national agenda

“Applying the new nutrition guidelines is part of our contribution to the implementation of the national agenda, which has put clear goals for dealing with child nutrition.”

Noura Abdulla Al Shamsi, Head of Permits and Applied Nutrition Section.​​