The national project for the development of the healthy school canteen is one of the important tools recently adopted by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education to encourage school students to adopt healthy eating habits and to improve their nutritional intake in cooperation with Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakery Company.

This initiative provides healthy food to compel students to change their wrong eating habits and adopt positive behavior in the hopes of reducing the instances of nutritional-related diseases.

In March, the Ministry of Education began implementing the project initially on eight schools for experimentation. Health products were presented by Flour Mills Company in preparation for the expansion of the project next year to include primary schools and then expand to all stages. This project was applied to these schools as a first step in cooperation with the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, the Kuwait Food and Nutrition Authority and the Flour Mills Company to provide various safe food items for school students.

Under the terms of the project, the school canteen will be developed to ensure nutritious food is made available at affordable prices for school students in order to improve their health and to reduce the risk factors leading to non-communicable diseases.

Speaking about this initiative, Kuwait Flour Mill Company CEO Mutlaq Al-Zayed said that the canteen project will introduce the company’s products in canteens with the approved specifications of the Kuwait Food and Nutrition Authority in order to preserve the health of school students.

Al-Zayed added that the company and its partners represented by the Ministry of Education and the Food and Nutrition Authority have developed an objective plan for the project consisting of three phases aimed at preserving the health of the students as part of its national responsibility.

He explained that the first phase included the adoption of samples of the company’s varieties by the Food and Nutrition Authority after conducting several questionnaires for students to learn about their favorite products.

As for the second phase, it began supplying samples to eight schools from different stages and governorates to test the products for a trial period of three weeks, he said.

He added that during this period, questionnaires would be conducted for students after the experiment, noting that the third phase will be the actual supply starting from the next school year for all primary schools.

He said that the number of products offered by the company in the canteens amounted to about 31 products of different flavors ranging from 100 fils to 250 fils. He added that the mechanism of work in the project is now through the delivery of the company’s products to the school’s canteens, which are responsible for the purchase, and pointed out that there is a possibility in the future to use vending machines in schools to sell products of the company.


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