Restaurants, to make healthier children's meals

Monday 18 July 2011

Parents who start healthier restaurant meals for their children on chicken nuggets and Macaroni and cheese to look.

Said at least 19 restaurant chains - including Burger King, Chili's, IHOP and friendly's - last week, that they will contain healthier options menus on their children. At least 15,000 restaurant locations is focused to increase servings of fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, grains, and low-fat milk. The elements have less fat, sugar and sodium.

Less healthy foods such as burgers and French fries are the restaurants say continue to but in the menu, that she will do more promotion of healthier options.

Chili, will highlight their children on the menu, for example, a chicken sandwich with a side of pineapple or mandarins. Burger King has formulated new children chicken nuggets recently so that they contain less sodium, and employee orders will ask questions, if customers healthier Apple fries instead of just the standard "fries with that?"

The effort is part of a new national restaurant connection initiative, children give more healthy options in restaurants and parents find these options make it easier. Some points are already on the menu, but restaurants are stronger to advertise and to order healthier menu items easier to identify.

To part of the programme, restaurants 600 calories must have at least a children menu item, which is or less and other nutritional requirements are met. A

Supplement amounting to less than 200 calories must also be included.

"This could provide a big push in the direction of healthier offerings in restaurants,", said Robert post, the Department of agriculture officials in the development of the Department of nutrition policy, which came earlier this year. The invited Americans eating less salt.

"We hope that this is a trend to new items and voluntary new formulations is," said post.

Signature for the initiative of large and small chain restaurants are Bon au pain, Bonefish Grill, Burger King, Burgerville, bus Baghdad Italian Grill, Chevys, Chili's, corner bakery cafe, Cracker Barrel, Denny's, El Pollo Loco, friendly's, IHOP, Joe's Crab Shack, Outback Steakhouse, silver Diner, Sizzler, T - bone great American local and Zpizza.

Joe Taylor of chiles said that the company has responded to the needs of consumers healthier foods. While guests looking for a Gesünder essen used, the request substitutions, they have more opportunities.

"We have seen our guests to customize their meals to a greater degree, if they look to hold the Mayo or add the broccoli", Taylor said.

Patrick Lenow of IHOP said that the restaurant will add two new children menu items, due to the efforts, including pancakes with fruit and scrambled eggs with fruits. The company had already limited everything on their children's menu, to less than 600 calories and fruit a default page instead of fries - a change that has dramatically increased fruit consumption in restaurants, Lenow said.

He have to not yet committed to the effort several restaurant chains. Maggiano, Brinker International, chillies property is not part of the programme. Neither is the world's largest Burger chain McDonald's.

Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association, said that the Group of hopes the efforts in the coming months to other restaurants.

First Lady Michelle Obama last year attended a National Restaurant Association in Washington and pleaded with them take a little butter or cream from their dishes, use low-fat milk and Apple slices or carrots provide as a default page. She said that the Americans eat a third of their meals in restaurants that long by many as the worst offenders on diet have seen.

Many restaurant companies start to reformulate menu items and add new healthier sections of their menus, however, as consumers have shown an increased interest in nutrition.

John Dillon by Denny who said that the company has ago recent photos of French fries from their menus.

"Where before we worried not with French fries in the picture on our menu have been, we now, that find has really helped our business", he said.

Nutrition advocates Margo Wootan of advocacy group Center for Science in the public interest says that the effort is a good first step, but that restaurants need to do even more.

"It is not enough, a healthy option in a minefield of high calories have high fat and high salt," she said.

She says, make the best ways for restaurants, a difference, by default Court to leave a healthy page as IHOP has with fruit, and to Diners at the reorder encourage healthier options such as Burger King with his Apple fries.

The Federal Government will soon require restaurants calories on their menu items.

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