Why? Okinawa public school lunches lack calcium, iron and salt, falling below national intake standards

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Why? Okinawa public school lunches lack calcium, iron and salt, falling below national intake standards

In a question and answer session at the prefectural assembly on the 21st, Superintendent of the Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education Mitsuru Hanmine revealed that the energy content of school lunches at public elementary and junior high schools in the prefecture does not meet the national school lunch intake standards. Of the 13 items in the national standards, four items in elementary schools and eight items in junior high schools are below t…