Healthy Vending Guidelines
Posted by John Sayers on December 15, 2010
Healthy Vending Machine Guidelines
Recommended healthy beverages and snacks for vending machines at your location are listed below. KSA can help you to incorporate these healthy choices.
Recommended Beverages:
* Bottled Water, such as Dasani Water or Aquafina Water
* 100% Fruit Juice such as Very Fine Apple, Orange or Grape Juice or Minute Maid juices to go such as Orange and Apple
* Vegetable Juice such as V8
* 1% or Skim Milk
* Non-Carbonated Calorie Free Flavored Water such as Propel
Recommended Snacks:
In 1 to 1 ½ ounce servings of snack foods, look for less than 30 grams of carbohydrates, less than 360 milligrams of sodium and fiber. Low fat items are best.
THE BEST:
* Fruit: fresh, canned, or dried
* Breakfast Bars/Cereal Mixes such as Kellogg’s Nutra-Grain
* Cereal Bars and Oatmeal Bars
* Nuts
* Sunflower Seeds
NEXT BEST:
* Baked Chips
* Pretzels such as Snyder Sour Dough Pretzels
* Crackers/Cookies such as Keebler Animal Crackers, Nabisco Fig Newtons or Teddy Grahams
Packaging makes a difference! If packages contain more than one serving (1 to 1½ ounces), calories, fat, carbohydrates and sodium will be higher.
