Consumer Reports called on the Department of Agriculture today to remove Lunchables food kits from the National School Lunch Program. CR recently compared the nutritional profiles of two Lunchable kits served in schools and found they have even higher levels of sodium than the kits consumers can buy in the store. CR also tested 12 store-bought versions of Lunchables and similar kits and found several contained relatively high levels of lead and cadmium. All but one also tested positive for phthalates, chemicals found in plastic that have been linked to reproductive problems, diabetes, and certain cancers.

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    7 months ago

    To be clear, this is a subset of the lunchables brand specifically manufactured and sent to schools for lunches, which has a higher sodium content than the retail variety you can buy. They don’t want to ban all lunchables

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      7 months ago

      Ban them all, they slipped in poisons into future of USA citizens. Should be a class action lawsuit

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      7 months ago

      So, it’s either the school-variant with high sodium, or the store variant with lead, cadmium, and phtalates, then?

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        7 months ago

        They did say “similar kits/products” implying it much not be lunchables, which feels an awful lot like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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          7 months ago

          They said “Lunchables and similar lunch kits”, and CR has a reputation for using honest language, so I don’t think there’s any reasonable confusion here about whether or not Lunchables are affected.

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            7 months ago

            They said those were tested and several (not all) of the things tested were found to contain “bad stuff”

            It’s actually pretty vague wording.