原文：https://vegnews.com/2020/8/northern-california-school-district-adds-vegan-chicken-nuggets-to-lunch-program

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT ADDS VEGAN CHICKEN NUGGETS TO LUNCH PROGRAM

北加州学区的午餐计划采纳纯素鸡块食品

This fall, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District will deliver Rebellyous Foods’ vegan Kickin’ Nuggets to students as they continue to learn from home.

圣拉蒙谷统一学区（San Ramon Valley Unified School District）今年秋季将向继续居家学习的学生们提供Rebellyous食品公司生产的Kickin' Nugget纯素鸡块。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

AUGUST 21, 2020

2020年8月21日

The San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) in Northern California will add vegan chicken nuggets to its lunch program this fall. The school district partnered with Seattle-based startup Rebellyous Foods to incorporate its Kickin’ Nuggets—which meet the United States Department of Agriculture’s standards for the National School Lunch Program—to its meals, which will be packaged and delivered to families as children continue at-home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

今年秋季，美国北加利福尼亚州（Northern California）的圣拉蒙谷统一学区（SRVUSD）将纯素鸡块食品纳入学校午餐计划。该学区与总部位于西雅图的初创公司Rebellyous Foods进行合作，将该公司生产的Kickin' Nugget纯素鸡块添加到学区内各所学校的午餐；该款纯素鸡块食品符合美国农业部（USDA）规定的“全国学校午餐计划”（National School Lunch Program）标准，将被打包并发送到在COVID-19（2019冠状病毒病）大流行期间继续居家学习的各个学生家庭。

“Providing our schoolkids healthier options that are good for the planet shouldn’t be hard. In fact, it should be the standard,” Miguel Villarreal, SRVUSD’s Director of Child Nutrition and Warehouse, said. “We’re excited to partner with Rebellyous to bring these options to students in our community.”

“为我们的学生提供有利于地球的更健康食品不应该是什么难事。实际上，这应当成为咱们的规矩，”圣拉蒙谷统一学区的儿童营养和仓库管理主任米格尔·维拉里尔（Miguel Villarreal）表示。“我们很高兴和Rebellyous食品公司共同合作，向我们社区的学生供应这些生态环保的健康美食。”

Rebellyous was founded by Christie Lagally—the former senior scientist at food-advocacy firm The Good Food Institute—with the aim of developing affordable vegan products for the food-service sector while creating machinery that can be used by other plant-based companies to help scale their production. In April, the company secured $6 million in funding, which it is using to accelerate the production of its vegan chicken nuggets—made from textured wheat, chicken-less flavoring, cornstarch, oil, and corn breading—using a proprietary processing technique that creates a texture comparable to its animal-derived counterpart. Since February 2019, Rebellyous has supplied its vegan nuggets to schools, corporate cafeterias, hospitals, and universities in the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco Bay Area regions. 

克里斯蒂·拉格利（Christie Lagally）曾是食品倡导组织“好食品研究所”（GFI）的一名高级科学家，由她创立的Rebellyous食品公司旨在为餐饮服务业开发经济实惠的纯素食产品，同时还研制各种（先进、高效、环保的）机器设备，可供其他植物性食品公司用于进一步扩大各自的生产规模。Rebellyous食品公司在今年四月份成功融资600万美元，并利用这些资金加快生产本公司的纯素鸡块产品──其制作材料为组织化小麦蛋白、无鸡调味料、玉米淀粉、油和玉米面包糠，所采用的专有加工技术能够创造出与对应动物制品相似的结构组织。自2019年2月以来，Rebellyous食品公司已将其纯素鸡块产品推广到太平洋西北地区（Pacific Northwest）和旧金山湾区（San Francisco Bay Area）的多家中小学、企业食堂、医院和大学。

“We’re thrilled to work with SRVUSD to be the first school district in the nation to offer the Rebellyous Kickin’ Nugget,” Lagally said. “Together we’re raising the bar for cafeteria food, one lunch tray at a time.”

“我们很激动能够与圣拉蒙谷统一学区开展合作，使之成为美国第一个供应Kickin' Nugget纯素鸡块食品的学区，”拉格利说道。“我们正在一起努力，用一托盘一托盘的（营养、健康、美味、环保）午餐，不断提升食堂的饮食水准。”