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G. C. Rampersaud, M. A. Pereira, B. L. Girard, J. Adams and J. D. Metzl, “Breakfast Habits, Nutritional Status, Body Weight, and Academic Performance in Children and Adolescents,” Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Vol. 105, No. 5, 2005, pp. 743-760. doi:10.1016/j.jada.2005.02.007

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• TITLE: A Pilot Study on the New USDA Meal Pattern for School Breakfast in a Sample of First-Grade Students

  AUTHORS: Noelle Carr, Sibylle Kranz

  KEYWORDS: School Breakfast; Meal Pattern; Intake Recommendation

  JOURNAL NAME: Food and Nutrition Sciences, Vol.3 No.9, September 12, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Background: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently modified the school breakfast program (SBP) to improve children’s nutrition. Based on the new patterns, schools must offer larger amounts of fruits, grains, and proteins/meats to children; the amounts of fluid foods (milk and juice) remained the same. This study examined the effect of the new food pattern on student’s consumption and food cost. Methods: The amounts and cost of foods served and wasted for one week in first grade students attending two elementary schools (n = 812) were measured. One school received the current SBP pattern (control breakfast, average number of students attending breakfast n = 81), the other school’s breakfast reflected the proposed changes (test breakfast, n = 82). To test the hypothesis that the test breakfast leads to significantly increased food cost and food waste compared to the control breakfast, the weekly average amount of the served solid and fluid foods (grams and milliliters) as well as their waste were compared between the two groups using paired student’s t-test in STATA 11 (significance at p-value