Do you serve coated chicken products in your tuckshop?
Coated chicken products include (but aren’t limited to):
- Chicken fillets
- Chicken patties
- Chicken strips/fingers or goujons
- Chicken burgers
- Chicken nuggets
On their own, chicken nuggets are rated RED against the Smart Choices guidelines. This is because commercially made, coated chicken products have a poor nutritional profile.
However, it is possible to achieve an AMBER rating if you serve chicken nuggets (that meet the criteria) as part of a meal.
This useful Guide to How to Serve Chicken Nuggets in Tuckshops will help you work out:
- How to determine if your coated chicken product is rated RED or AMBER
- The recommended serving sizes
- Ideas on how to serve them as part of a meal.
This resource was developed as part of the Healthier Tuckshop Support Program funded by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland.
