The Canada Food Guide and Day Nurseries Act need to be updated to include a minimum quality standard for food products served in daycare. For example, they should specify that fresh fruit, not canned fruit should be fed to children. Warm meals should not be warmed up TV dinners full of additives and fillers or food dumped from a can. Juice (especially juice made from powder) should not be considered a “fruit serving”. Hot dogs should not be considered a meat serving, and so on.

These two pieces of legislation are all about quantity, not quality.

For more information about Canadian standards, please refer to the Canada Food Guide.