Eating Breakfast: Effects of the School Breakfast Program - ST

Family Economics and Nutrition Review, Fall, 1998

Expansion of the School Breakfast Program is a policy issue currently being debated. The findings from re-analysis of the 1992 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment study suggest that expanding the program to low-income students would be associated with their increased likelihood of consuming a breakfast that included at least 10 percent of the RDA for food energy. In 1992 about two-thirds of low-income students attended schools with the School Breakfast Program, suggesting that a significant percentage of low-income students would be affected by an expansion of the School Breakfast Program.

Source: Devaney, B. and Stuart, E. 1998. Eating Breakfast: Effects of the School Breakfast Program U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Contract No. 53-3198-7-006.