Overview

• Field reports at the start of the 2025–2026 school year show vendors clustered outside campuses in Toluca offering flavored yogurts, cookies, sweetened milks, juices and packaged hotcakes.
• A UNICEF–OPS–Poder del Consumidor survey finds at least eight in ten schools have removed junk food and sodas, with nine in ten parents supporting the SEP guidelines and most favoring regulation near schools.
• A separate survey presented by Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria reports that two in ten schools still sell prohibited items inside, and only about half of parents received briefings on the rules.
• Parents report mixed experiences as many students still bring processed items in lunchboxes, and school food services that switched to healthier menus note declining sales.
• Michoacán’s Health Secretariat issued an advisory warning that ultraprocessed foods harm concentration and long‑term health, urging balanced diets as classes resume.