Mon, 19 Aug, 2013 12:03:12 AM FTimes-STT Report, August 19  File picture: A 3-year-old baby asking for food in a day-care center in Espoo, on August 6, 2013. Photo - Lehtikuva Day-care centre authorities are considering reducing options for choosing non-allergic foods for children to cut down the cost.
Two of the centre authorities, who launched experimental programmes of introducing lactose-free and vegetarian common foods five years back, have termed the options time-consuming and costly, said sources in day-care and food supply authorities.
One of them, based in Tampere, has decided to go for a food menu leaving out the long allergic food list from this month while the other in Espoo has been going by an experimental menu for the last four years, the sources said.
The authorities claim their experimental menus have successfully trimmed the food-selection options by narrowing down the list of allergic foods.
As individual allergic food eats up most of the time required for preparing meals, less allergic food would not be brought under consideration, said a Tampere Ateria official.
‘From now on, many of the useless diets will be dropped from the menu,’ said food supply authority Communication Coordinator Matliisa Lehtinen, adding that only those food-stuffs that made significant allergic reactions in people would be avoided.
Salad bowl in the dining room of a day-care center in Espoo, on August 6, 2013. Photo - Lehtikuva Lehtinen also said that at this point they would not exclude too many diets as the allergic programmes were launched only in 2008 and their good effects had already been observed in some areas.
‘We feel the number of allergic diets have already come down on the menus and we have done a lot in co-operation with maternity clinics and day-cares,’ said the service manager of Jyväskylä city food service, Milkka Häkkinen.
Similar findings have come from another experimental programme taken in Espoo four years back, said the sources, adding that the demand for lactose-free diet and vegetarian food was still high at day-care centres in the country.
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