Our cereal bars are baked and made completely of natural ingredients, surely we are allowed to sell them?
Cereal bars have been excluded from food provision during the school day for the following reasons: The Governments food-based standards have been guided by the School Meal Review Panel (SMRP) who recommended that the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) adopt the Eurocode definition of confectionary, which classes bars of this type as confectionary. Cereal bars may not be as healthy as they may seem. In an investigation into 20 of the top-selling cereal bars in the UK, the Consumers Association found all bars to be high in sugar and more than half were also high in saturated fat.
