Consumer Reports called on the Department of Agriculture today to remove Lunchables food kits from the National School Lunch Program. CR recently compared the nutritional profiles of two Lunchable kits served in schools and found they have even higher levels of sodium than the kits consumers can buy in the store. CR also tested 12 store-bought versions of Lunchables and similar kits and found several contained relatively high levels of lead and cadmium. All but one also tested positive for phthalates, chemicals found in plastic that have been linked to reproductive problems, diabetes, and certain cancers.
To be clear, this is a subset of the lunchables brand specifically manufactured and sent to schools for lunches, which has a higher sodium content than the retail variety you can buy. They don’t want to ban all lunchables
Ban them all, they slipped in poisons into future of USA citizens. Should be a class action lawsuit
So, it’s either the school-variant with high sodium, or the store variant with lead, cadmium, and phtalates, then?
They did say “similar kits/products” implying it much not be lunchables, which feels an awful lot like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Considering the child obesity problem in America, maybe they should ban all Lunchables.