Some school cafeterias are trying to offer students better lunch options both in terms of nutrition and taste. Do you think eating cafeteria food is unhealthy for you? Nearly 20% of children in the United States have been diagnosed with obesity. Part of the blame comes from cafeteria food and lack of exercise. Every day millions of students around the world eat lunch served at school. Numerous factors lead to unhealthy eating in schools and campuses. I think the cafeteria food is not safe to eat. Every time you eat a bite you are damaging your health. Unhealthy cafeteria food is a problem for countless reasons. Eating unhealthy foods at school at an early age can lead to poor eating habits for the rest of your life. This leads to obesity in children and continues into adults. “Currently more than two-thirds of American states have obesity rates. For adults, more than 20% and nearly 1 in 3 children are overweight or obese." (Scheff, Examiner, Food Revolution) This is just one of the ways that cafeteria food has a negative impact. School lunches contain ingredients that we are not aware of. Some school lunch pizzas contain up to 25 different ingredients. This number does not reflect the actual number of ingredients in each individual ingredient, such as sauce, crust, cheeses and toppings additives and preservatives. “Some of the ingredients found in pizza include azodicarbonamide” (Scheff, Examiner, Food Revolution). This is food grade bleach that does double duty as a plastic defoaming agent to how much damage it could cause to your body. There is nothing positive about this chemical when it comes to getting into your body. The pink slime has swept the nation, which has left students and families wondering what exactly is in it in the burgers that come out of the canteen. Pink slime is made from disinfected meat scraps that are ground up and mixed together. For sterilization this meat product is also coated with ammonium hydroxide, an edible ingredient. “This is also a component of many household cleaners and is commonly found in many household items.” (Chertow, The Lowell, the Lowell) Pink slime is used in schools instead of meat. This is unsafe and should not be served in any school cafeteria. Ammonium hydroxide is known to cause coughing and breathing difficulties.