granola bars

太りすぎを防止するために学校の自販機からjunk foodを閉め出したシアトル...しかし、そこに待ち構えていたのは自販機からの売り上げをもとにした数々の資金援助の打ち切りでした。
granola barは海外生活が長い人ならおなじみのスナックですが、一応、GPさんに解説してもらいましょう。お願いします。（Yori-money）
Junk food may be returning to school vending machines in Seattle
Years after a ban on unhealthful food in Seattle high schools, students are now ignoring
By Brian M. Rosenthal
Seattle Times education reporter

The Seattle School Board is considering relaxing its ban on unhealthful food in high schools amid complaints from student governments that the policy has cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in vending-machine profits over the past seven years.

The policy, approved in 2004 — before any state or federal regulations on school nutrition had been established — put Seattle on the cutting edge of the fight against childhood obesity.

But board members now acknowledge they probably went too far. The restrictions, which are more strict than the now-crafted state and federal nutrition guidelines, allow only products such as milk, natural fruit juice, baked chips and oat-based granola bars.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many students are not particularly interested in those items.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016994862_schoolvending12m.html