2024-09-062024-09-062024-08-29International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutritionhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12272/11435Several studies have reported high overweight and obesity incidence among schoolchildren and adolescents, who mostly consume packaged snacks with critical nutrients exceeding the criteria of international profiling systems during school breaks. Then, the objectives of this work were to reformulate a snack consumed by Argentinian schoolchildren and adolescents (aged 6-13 years) to decrease its critical nutrient contents and to determine if this product would still be accepted. Chocolate chip vanilla cookies were selected for reformulation considering each recommended cut-off point for critical nutrients, since a prohibition of products with warning octagons being offered at schools would come into effect in Argentina. These cookies received good acceptability scores (above 3 of 5 points) and would be consumed by 8 of 10 schoolchildren in a sample of 200 participants. These findings underscore the importance of legislation promoting awareness of healthier eating habits and increasing the availability of healthier food 30 options in schools.pdfengembargoedAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternacionalQuímica de los alimentosNutrición infantilNutritional statusSchool-aged children and adolescentsSnack qualityNutritional labelinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleAcceso con embargo hasta el 30/08/2025.https://doi.org/10.1080/09637486.2024.2396481.2025-08-30