...Anna Katarzyna Mazurek-Kusiak; Agata Kobyłka; Bogusław Sawicki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess nutritional habits and body composition parameters in the group of Polish pupils and students. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted by the body composition analysis...

...Irma Tikkanen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe self‐reported and estimated school meal consumption patterns of the pupils and introduces the pupils' and their parents' suggestions for developing the school meals in Finland with respect to the plate model. Design/methodology...

...Irma Tikkanen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and describe the self‐reported diet behaviour of pupils in four Finnish schools. Design/methodology/approach Overall, eight theoretical views on school meals are briefly illustrated. Empirical data were collected in 2007 from four...

...Irma Tikkanen; Ulla‐Marja Urho Purpose This paper aims to describe free school meals with respect to a plate model and to analyse how the meals were chosen by pupils at Finnish comprehensive schools. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the history of the Finnish school catering...