The Issues of School Lunch Program in Encouraging Fish Consumption

Abstract

School meals do not offer much fish dishes. The reason for this is often explained by the high price of fish. Here we investigate that fish dishes are not often served in school meals because of the school meal system, where the same dishes are served to a large number of children, not only the price of fish. In fact, school lunches at elementary schools located in cities with over 100,000 people has provided twice as many fish meals as elementary schools located in megacity. We concluded that if school meals could be limited to a maximum of 8,000 meals per day in the same menu, school meals could provide more fish meals.