Update: No junk food here, SF takes a turn for healthier vending

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According to a recent article from Prevent Obesity, San Francisco city has taken the healthier food movement to a new level by adopting a new ordinance that ensures healthier foods are found in city property vending machines and during city meetings and events.

The new ordinance requires that all prepackaged food sold in vending machines meet calorie labeling requirements and nutritional standards. Foods sold in vending machines on city property per serving must be no more than 200 calories, less than one gram of saturated fat, no more than 35% of calories from fat and have no trans fat or partially hydrogenated oil. Sodium and sugar guidelines are also detailed as well as opting out of all candy except for sugar-free mints and gum.

Beverages must also follow nutritional standards where no sugar-sweetened beverages are allowed, and only 25% of beverages offered can be labeled as “diet” or sweetened with artificial sweeteners.

San Francisco has created a culture of health around healthier food and beverages within their school cafeterias, within new policy proposals on sugary beverages, and within a healthy food retail program and within city community gardens.

To read more about the history of this healthier food policy, click here.

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