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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Charles E. Buban
FOR PUBLIC schoolchildren in the '70s and '80s, a day would not be complete without having a bite of Nutribun every school recess.
Back then, the Nutribun-a bun fortified with vitamins and minerals-was the government's way of giving daily nutritional supplement to lower-income children in public schools.
Since then, the government has looked into other cost-effective, long-term strategies to supplement the nutrition of these schoolchildren. Most recent among these is the Sangkap Pinoy Seal program of the Department of Health, which encourages food manufacturers to fortify their products with essential…