Healthy Vending Trends In Schools.

With growing concerns about obesity among children; parents and schools are encouraging consumption of healthy foods. As more and more children are prone to obesity, school vending programs are being kept under close scrutiny. Gradually soft drinks have been replaced with water and fruit juices. Healthy snacks and foods are replacing traditional junk food items.

School vending was associated with junk food earlier but now, the trend is towards providing healthy refreshment solutions in schools. In order to accommodate changing trends, healthy snacks and food items are being offered for sales in schools.

What is new in the world of healthy vending?

If you own or operate a vending business then you can enjoy some incredible choices for your snack vending machines. Apart from the regular pretzels, veggie crisps, bagel chips, wide assortment of nuts, dried fruit, trail mixes, nutrition bars, yogurt bars, and meal replacement bars, several new introductions are being made every month. Low calorie cookies, candy bars and baked black bean chips are also offered for sale through vending machines in schools.

Cold food vending machines also feature a wide variety of food items like healthy cereal, corn flakes, salads and combo meals. Vending operators are also introducing soymilk and juice vending machines.

Most of these items are low carb, low fat/fat free, sugar free/no sugar added. Hence they do not have any adverse effects on health. With more and more customers switching to healthy foods, vending machine operators are boldly offering increased varieties of healthy items in their vending machines.

To vend healthy food products, as a vending operator, you will have to maintain proper temperatures and moisture level in vending machine. For this you will need to purchase the best quality vending machines. Planet Antares manufactures vending machines that are robust and reliable in performance. State-of-the-art vending machines manufactured by Planet Antares are equipped with latest gadgets to make sure that children get fresh and nutritious food at all times.