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Healthy School Products

Schools across Australia are looking for healthy food and drinks to sell in their canteens and rely on the Healthy Kids Product Registration Scheme to assist them.

The Healthy Kids Product Registration Scheme is the leading food and drink registration programme for school canteens. It is highly regarded and trusted by canteen managers to assist them make healthy menu choices, easily.

School canteen managers can be confident that registered products have been independently assessed by the Healthy Kids Food Industry Team dietitians and nutritionists, meet the Healthy Kids Nutrient Criteria and are better choices for their school canteen. On average, each year there are  over  900 Healthy Kids Registered Products.

The majority of registered products are compliant with state government healthy school canteen strategies (Some registered product categories are not permitted in SA).

Healthy Kids registered products are listed in the Healthy Kids School Canteen Buyers’ Guide that is distributed free of charge to schools across Australia (select schools in WA). The Buyers’ Guide is published annually in January for the start of the school year. A Buyers’ Guide supplement, containing additional registered products is published and sent out to schools for the beginning of Term 3.

Why Register Your Products?

Only Healthy Kids Registered Products have access to a range of marketing and promotional opportunities that directly target the school canteen market.

These include:

• Green or Amber colour coded product listing in the Healthy Kids School Canteen Buyers' Guide that is sent to all schools (select WA schools)
• National exposure via listing in the Healthy Kids Online Buyers' Guide
• Use of the Healthy Kids Registered Product Logo on promotional literature (subject to a signed licence deed agreement)
• Registration Certificate for use by sales staff and distributors
• Opportunity to display your products at the annual Healthy Kids Trade show, part of the Expo and Training Day
• Targeted advertising in the Healthy Kids Buyers’ Guide published twice per year and in the Healthy Kids Members Magazine, 4 times per year

Over 90% of canteen managers surveyed use the Healthy Kids School Canteen Buyers Guide "Easy to read and the colour coding is fantastic" - Central Coast Canteen Manager