Slow advance of the school plan lives healthy; In slices children carry junk food

Alexia Villaseñor and Laura Poy

La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, p. 11

In the elementary school Leonardo Bravo, in Mexico City, it was a custom to give Malvavisco pallets with chocolate to first -degree students, but due to the guidelines that prohibit ultra -processed products and sugary drinks in schools, this time they only gave them an apple, which was received with little enthusiasm by the smallest of this level.

The challenge of changing eating habits in students will continue this school year as part of the Live Healthy Strategy, lives happy of the federal government. There is a lot to consolidate, because in the lunchboxes that children carry are numerous bottled juices, the Hotcakes or the cookies.

During a tour made by The day At the time of entry of the students to the campuses, it was observed in the immediate vicinity of a preschool, whose students carried transparent backpacks, which among the food they carried were the yogurt of flavor, cookies or probiotic drinks. Others had containers with chopped fruit, but also quesadillas with flour tortillas instead of corn.

At the same time, in breakfast posts close to educational centers predominate sugary drinks, packaged bread, cakes, Nuggets of chicken, among other products with more than one warning stamp.

Mrs. María Elena Hurtado, a food saleswoman in an high school in the State of Mexico, told this newspaper that in the cooperative where she works, instant soups, the packaging products, the chubby and fried quesadillas for salads, chopped fruit and enchilad seeds changed, but the sales collapsed and the products “almost do not come out, because we have seasts garnacheros,” he said.

He explained that every day they make a different menu, which includes stewed tacos but with vegetables as protagonists, they also include sopecitos or cheeseless cheers (only to the comal), salads with protein, turkey breast cakes, not leg, he clarified, sandwiches with lettuce, alfalfa germ or chopped carrot.