Will they eat it | School Dinners | Jamie Oliver

School dinners are in a deepening crisis

with a diet of fatty processed foods threatening our children's health.

The government doesn't seem to have the answers, so Jamie Oliver

wants to prove they can be better by transforming what kids

eat at school.

Shocked by what the kids are eating,

Jamie asked nutritionist Ruth Ash to analyse exactly

what is in this processed food and how it's affecting their health.

I had a quick look at the analysis.

The thing that leapt off the plate to me is that there is no fruit and veg there.

So for example, I think there's almost no vitamin C here.

Right.

So vitamin C would be important for their immunity.

So children are more likely to pick up infections

and take time off school ((Wow)).

My problem is, most of the kids

who eat this meal eat this Monday to Friday.

This meal contained about a third to half of the iron that it should.

So lack of iron would affect their concentration in school.

They will achieve less in school.

Let's get this right, the food that we're serving to school is actually

detracting from the possibilities of them concentrating and learning at school.

Absolutely.

And there is no doubt if you achieve

a reasonable amount of fruit

and vegetables in your diet, you can halve your risk of cancer.

Yes, fact.

You cut your risk of coronary heart disease,

of diabetes, of osteoporosis,

all the problems that we as a nation

are paying for through the National Health Service.

They come back to what we're feeding our children.

Jamie now needs to come up with his own 37p recipes

that are healthier.

He's been staring at the cheap

ingredients for over an hour.

God I feel totally uninspired.

I can't work like this

because I have to be inspired to cook, and I don't feel inspired