School factsheets
Resources for schools and school canteens/tuckshops
Schools go low additive - a low-additive honour roll of schools around the world
Schools: healthy choice canteens - resources for parents and schools
Schools: Eating for Success! - the Palmers Island and Nana Glen additive-free school trials (with recipes, tips and teacher resources)
Schools: Eating to Win! - how a school sporting team came out champions by changing what they ate
Schools: Fed Up with School Canteens/Tuckshops - a campaign to compare your tuckshop/canteeen with the artificial colour score at other schools
The Eating for Success Booklet for avoiding additives in schools
Palmer's Island video (larger 3Mb version)
The most convincing study: in the 1980s, removal of additives from school meals was strongly associated with learning a reduction of learning disabilities and improved academic achievement in the largest study of its kind ever done, with over a million students in 803 New York City schools. Read article
Schoenthaler, SJ, Doraz WE, Wakefield JA. 1986 – The Impact of a Low Food Additive and Sucrose Diet on Academic Performance in 803 New York City Public Schools, International Journal of Biosocial Research, Vol. 8(2): 185-195
Schoenthaler, SJ, Doraz WE, Wakefield JA. 1986a – The Testing of Various Hypotheses as Explanations for the Gains in National Standardized Academic Test Scores in the 1978-1983 New York City Nutrition Policy Modification Project, International Journal of Biosocial Research, Vol. 8(2): 196-203