The United Nations Children’s Fund report shows that Japanese children’s health status ranks first, and the incidence of childhood obesity is extremely low.

Children’s diet is one of the most important things for parents. Now that living conditions have improved, there are also many obese children.

However, childhood obesity is not a good phenomenon. On the contrary, it shows that today’s children’s diet is not balanced and healthy enough.

As we all know, today’s children are required to eat in the school cafeteria from the moment they go to school.

Although many children’s lunches are also called nutritious meals, when compared with the nutritious meals in Japanese schools, the gap is still very obvious.

I recently saw a Japanese documentary that recorded the dining process of an ordinary elementary school in Japan.

Japanese elementary school campuses will set aside an open space to grow food for children.

In addition, if every ingredient that enters the kitchen is publicized in the school, parents can trace the source.

After school at noon, the children began to line up to wash their hands, put on full uniforms and masks, and then entered the dining area under the leadership of the teacher.

There will be several children to help share meals and milk. When sharing meals, one child will record the meal situation and ask his classmates whether they have colds.

The daily lunch is not particularly rich, but it ensures a combination of meat and vegetables, balanced nutrition, and the price is very low, with an average of about 10 yuan (converted into RMB) for a primary school student.

And the children's recipes will be changed regularly, and the nutritious meals that the children eat daily are prepared by professional nutritionists.

And when serving meals in the school cafeteria, it must be ensured that the daily lunch must meet one-third of the calories consumed by the children in a day, and contain up to one-half of the calcium.

Moreover, any overrun of canteen expenses will be borne by the state. Reduces the burden on schools. After the children have finished eating, they will line up to brush their teeth, clear the table themselves, disinfect, and even sort the garbage.

Seeing this series of fully transparent dining procedures, I have to admit that domestic schools have lost. Even domestic aristocratic schools cannot guarantee that they can complete this set of procedures. Both are nutritious meals, so why are domestic canteens so different from Japanese canteens?

The sources of ingredients in the canteen are unknown

The ingredients used in many domestic schools cannot be traced, and many schools do not disclose the source of each ingredient.

However, most Japanese canteens grow their own ingredients, which can truly ensure that the food eaten by children is pollution-free.

The ingredients will also be made public for parents to check, so that the school can be held accountable for any accidents.

The hygiene situation in the kitchen is worrying

In China, many school kitchens are closed and outsiders are strictly prohibited from entering. The kitchens of many schools do not have blind spot monitoring, and the hygiene conditions of the kitchens are mostly messy and poor.

However, the Japanese kitchen can be said to be completely transparent and can be visited at any time for easy supervision.

Moreover, all kitchen utensils and staff pay great attention to hygiene. The kitchen is bright, clean and hygienic.

Many domestic canteens are outsourced canteens. Not only are the prices high, but they also aim to make profits and strive to maximize cost reductions.

Equipped with professional nutritionists to take charge of the dishes

Japanese school cafeterias have professional nutritionists to take charge of the dishes, but the level of domestic chefs varies, and many of them have not received formal training, let alone Nutritionally matched.

Many domestic school cafeterias have relatively low requirements for chefs.

Serious waste

The phenomenon of food wasting among students in domestic cafeterias is very serious when eating (directly related to the unpalatable food in the cafeteria). But leftover food is not allowed in Japanese schools.