The Education (Nutritional Standards and Requirements for School Food) (England) Regulations 2007

PART 2 Nutritional standards

11.  In this Part—

“average school lunch” has the meaning given by paragraph 13 below;

“menu cycle” means a plan of menus for school lunches lasting for no less than one and no more than four consecutive weeks during a term;

“non-milk extrinsic sugars” means any sugar which is not contained within cell walls, except lactose in milk and milk products;

“nutrient” means any substance listed in the table in paragraph 14 below.

12.  There shall be excluded from the calculations required by this Schedule any bread provided by virtue of paragraph 5 of part 1 of this Schedule.

13.  The average school lunch for a school must be calculated by totalling the amounts of energy and nutrients provided by all school lunches in a menu cycle, and then dividing that total by the estimated number of school lunches served to individual pupils during that menu cycle.

14.  The average school lunch must provide –

(a) an amount of energy which shall be either the figure shown in the table below or within 5% of that figure;

(b) no more than the amounts of fat, saturated fat, non-milk extrinsic sugars and sodium shown in the table below; and

(c) at least the amounts of other nutrients shown in the table below.

Energy or Nutrient and amount of measurement	Maximum or minimum value	Primary Schools	Secondary Schools
Energy in kilojoules (kilocalories)	-	2215 (530)	2700 (646)
Fat (grams)	Max	20.6	25.1
Saturated fat (grams)	Max	6.5	7.9
Non-milk extrinsic sugars (grams)	Max	15.5	18.9
Sodium (milligrams)	Max	499	714
Total carbohydrate (grams)	Min	70.6	86.1
Fibre (grams)	Min	4.2	5.2
Protein (grams)	Min	7.5	13.3
Iron (milligrams)	Min	3	5.2
Zinc (milligrams)	Min	2.5	3.3
Calcium (milligrams)	Min	193	350
Vitamin A (micrograms)	Min	175	245
Vitamin C (milligrams)	Min	10.5	14
Folate (micrograms)	Min	53	70