11. The power of reputation
Municipalities
School canteen
Indovina chi viene a cena
Enquiry program RAI3 Speciale TG1 TV7
Enquiry program RAI1
Petrolio
Enquiry program RAI1
Altroconsumo
12. Foodinsider a benchmark
Indovina chi viene a cena
Enquiry program RAI3
Speciale TG1 TV7
Enquiry program RAI1
Petrolio
Enquiry program RAI1
14. Foodinsider: influencer
Municipalities
School canteen
[---] According to the last
year rating we are
working in order to
introduce new dishes in
our menu [---]
School canteen Officer
Parents
[…] no more butter, cream
puddings, cream cheese, cold
cuts, finger fish and so on. […].
And I thank you immensly
Elisabetta
Mother of a private school in Rome
For us [parents] the online test
and the rating
have been foundamental
to show that our menu was
absolutely not
balanced
Antonio
School canteen
committees
18. INDICATORI DI QUALITA’
Service cost –
Municipality contribute = Service cost = RATE
Service cost +
Municipality income =
RATE RATE
(
Different approach in defining the rate: from € 2.50 to € 9.00 per child per meal
26. • filetti Limanda impanati
• (dab)
• polpette di merluzzo
• (cod)
• medaglioni di filetti spigola
(sea bass)
• crocchette di filetti di nasello
• (hake)
• Primi: sedanini al sugo trota
• (trout)
• Primi: farfalle al tonno
(tuna)
Roma
Milano
bocconcini di coda di rospo
(monkfish)
Filetti di platessa arrosto,
(flounder)
Gamberi a spiedino arrosto
(prawn skewers)
Rimini
Finger fish, cod
breaded plaice
Tuna
fish
(finger fish/cod)
Civitanova Marche
Firenze
pesce al forno
pesce alla livornese
pesce fritto (fried fish)
pesce alla mugnaia
(Cod or hake)
28. the 10 most common mistakes
Too many
proteins
Too much
red meat
Cold cuts Repetitive
vegetables
66% from 4 to 7
16% 8 or more
pasta al ragù (MEAT)
prosciutto cotto (COLD CUT)
peas (LEGUMES)
1 2 3 4 5
double portion of
vegetables
TRENTO
MANTOVA
BOLZANO
TREVISO
1 or more
70%VITERBO
CREMONA
salads, carrots, fennels
2 red meat a month
MILANO
BERGAMO
UDINE
2015/16
4 COLD CUTS
2017/18
NO COLD CUTS
VENICE
Few legumes
(pulses)
2/3 legumes
20%
risotto with peas
pasta and beans
pasta and chickpeas
pasta with cannellini beans
pasta pomodoro and lentils
Soup pasta and chickpeas
Rice with lentils
PERUGIA
29. the school canteen models
Industrial kitchen
delivered meals
& school kitchen
Packed/
processed
food
fresh food
BIO
Milano Bologna Udine Cremona/Trento
Industrial kitchen
delivered meals
Industrial kitchen
delivered meals
School kitchen
Industr
ial
model
56%
Local
and
central
kitchen
24%
local
kitchen
20%
The quality of food changes according to the model
39. CREMON
A
2018
Organic >60%
Fruit as snack yes
Cereals variety 5
Whole cereals 4
Meat 5 (3 red meat)
Cold cuts NO
Legumes 4 (unica fonte proteica)
Eggs 2
Fish 7
Cheese 2
Vegetables 5 (a settimana)
Dessert NO
Dishes Ceramica
Kitchen 32
Nr. meals 3.000
Primo classificatoCREMONA ASTI 2018
Organic <40%
Fruit as snack NO
Cereal variety 2
Whole cereals NO
Meat 11 (8 carni rosse)
Cold cuts 2
Legumes 4
Eggs 1
Fish ‘Pesce’ 4
Cheese 4 + 2 yogurt
Vegetables 3/4 (a settimana)
Dessert 4 industriale
dishes plastica
Kitchen 1
Nr. meals 1.500
CIVITANOVA MARCHE 1 kitchen
32
kitchens
40. Cremona
• Health & taste
(since 2007)
• Cook training
• Teacher involved
• 2 menus
Trento
sostenibilità
biologico e filiera corta
3° Rating menu scolastici 2017/18
1
41. CREMONA Special menu
mixed salad with apple
and pumpkin seedsrise with almonds with
lemon flavor
yellow rice with zucchini
and pistachio pesto
spelled with turmeric
pumpkin and aromatic herbs
52. As the Nobel Prize Kenneth Arrow said,
trust is (also) an economic good
trust is the lubricant of the social system …
without trust is like an engine without oil,
after a while it crashes
Foodinsider is a network of people with difference competence that have in common the interest in the quality of food, mainly the food offered at school
At the beginning Foodinsider was formed by parents that were above all school canteen commissioners.
School Canteen Committees is an organization present in many Italian cities and are formed by parents and teachers on a voluntary basis every school year. Their task is to monitor the quality of food and service by supervising school meals, tasting the food and filling reports. As an example, in Milan, there are currently 2.200 commissioners operating at school.
Starting from 2011, the Milanese School Canteen Committees began to elect their own representatives (2 for each city zone, so 18 in total), a team of people who have managed to negotiate improvements of menus and service.
Claudia Paltrinieri was a member of the first elected Representation of the School Canteen Committees, which ran for four years (2011-2015). She later founded Foodinsider, a digital platform devoted to food education with a focus on school canteen menus. The original aim was to share information among parents and provide tools to increase their awareness about the quality of the menus.
School canteen commettee monitor the quality of the school canteen service and can ask for changes.
Sometimes if they don’t find any answer to the request of change and the food remain of a bad quality, then conflicts may rise
In some cities of Italy where conflicts haven’t found any solution the result is that family have decided to give up and prefer to bring their own food made at home
The score menu is based on a test developed by the Milan Area 2 Public Health Unit (the Milan Area 2 refers to the southern suburb of Milan) in 2010. The test was used until 2017 and then dismissed when the Area 2 was incorporated to Area 1.
The aim of the test was to evaluate the balance of school menus and the quality of the food served in school canteens located within the Milan suburb area. The metrics were based on the Guidelines of Italian school canteen dated 2010 and the WHO Recommendations.
Industrial process has decreased the quality of food
Frauds are frequent in school canteen service
The result is that about 30% of the food is rejected
There is also a question of price, because the rate in Italy can be 2.50 euro but rise up to 9 euro per meal
What is the risk?
In some cases as we have seen in Pescara, the risk is the poisoning of children, but if you widen your perspective all this will have a great impact on obesity, increase of health cost on Gross Domestic Product
What we noticed is a great difference in the quality of ingredient
This is an analysis made by the local Health Agency of Trieste integrated with the Trieste University, in a senior residence in order to evaluate the intake of nutrient of the food served to old people. The result shows that there is a progressive loss of nutrients related to a number of aspects: like for example the time that pass from the cooking to the time the food is served
According to this protocol it is evident that a short supply chain, a catering with no proceesed food, the way of cooking and the kitchen close to the area of eating are all aspects that ensure a proper nutrition that mantain most of the nutrients of food