Fuel Up to Play 60 is collaborating with Washington state-based topfruit and cherry supplier Chelan Fresh to increase US student access to more nutritious food choices in schools.
Chelan Fresh will provide Fuel Up to Play 60, the nation's leading in-school wellness programme, with portable breakfast/salad bar carts to be used in 15 Fuel Up to Play 60 schools in 11 states across the country.
The portable breakfast/salad bar carts are a healthy solution donated by Chelan Fresh to Fuel Up to Play 60 schools and will reach nearly 9,000 students, serving an estimated 1.3m meals annually.
Finding new ways to serve nutritious options in schools (like low-fat and fat-free dairy products, fruits, vegetables and whole grains) can make a difference in helping provide all students with the nutrition they need to fuel their full potential.
The rolling carts from Chelan Fresh will provide easy solutions to school nutrition and meal service teams, allowing them the opportunity to position the cart in areas that provide students easy access to nutritious foods.
The portable breakfast/salad bar carts will be provided to recipient schools in Arizona, California, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington in time for the 2018/19 school year.
This effort marks Chelan Fresh's support of Fuel Up to Play 60 for the seventh consecutive year, reinforcing the companies' ongoing commitment to help K-12 schools improve or expand their nutrition and physical activity programmes through Fuel Up to Play 60.
'As one of the original supporters of the Fuel Up to Play 60 team, Chelan Fresh has been a leader in the produce industry ensuring kids try and continue to choose nutritious food items at school and at home,' said Mac Riggan, director of marketing at Chelan Fresh.
The company began its support of the Fuel Up to Play 60 program in 2011, and since that time has provided more than US$750,000 in funding and in-kind resources to support increasing student's access across the country to nutritious foods including fruit, vegetables, dairy and whole grains.
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