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UK: Brainy snacks
Workers co-operative is working with its local authority to provide school age children with healthy snacks
Food wholesaler Suma is playing an important part in Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council?s programme for schoolchildren called ?Together we’ll succeed?. It will provide individual snack packs containing banana chips, papaya, pineapple, cherries and raisins, to every school child sitting an exam in an area near its West Yorkshire warehouse comprising some 130 schools. Andrew Mackintosh, PR manager of Suma, explains ?The link between diet and behaviour is irrefutable, the combination of fruits in these packs provides not only a steady release of energy, rather than the highs and lows experienced with traditional snacks, containing highly refined sugars, salts and sweeteners, but also over 25% of the daily requirement of iron, proven to increase concentration and mental agility.? Suma is a wholly worker owned co-operative, comprising of 130 workers, turning over some £25m per year. www.suma.co.uk
