Depoliticizing the nutribun

Man does not live by bread alone. But for those born in the latter half of the 1960s and who later went to public elementary school in the Philippines in the early 1970s, they can — and did — with the nutribun, “a bread borne out of good intentions,” according to an online report.

The nutribun, whose primary ingredients were wheat flour and non-fat dry milk powder, was designed as a convenient “ready-to-eat complete meal” for feeding programs in public elementary schools in economically depressed areas in the Philippines. The intended beneficiaries were mostly children weighing below the normal weight for their age.