Joe Harvey, director of the Health Education Trust and an adviser on the DoH's Food in Schools Project, said: "What we teach and what we provide need to be in tune."
He criticised inconsistent messages of teaching about healthy diets and then filling vending machines with chocolate bars "to make a massive profit on the back of ill health".
Harvey has just completed a report on vending machines for the Food Standards Agency. While he recognised that schools were under pressure to make a profit from vending machines, he found that having healthy drinks in vending machines was "commercially viable".
Harvey also called on the DfES to set a minimum value for free school meals. He said the current situation where "the value of a benefit varies" was "ridiculous".
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