No-Oreo zone: Kids at school can't bring processed food
"I will get them peanut butter and honey on whole wheat," Moreno says, taking away the offending meals.
Moreno is a teacher at the Children's Success Academy, a 10-year-old school on Tucson's south side for children in kindergarten through the fifth grade. The school is unique for its food rules - it bans not only white flour, but refined sugar and anything it defines as processed food.
"It has to say 100 percent juice. If it just says natural,' that's not allowed," 8-year-old third-grader Jacob Price says as he bites into an apple. "I wish we could bring more kinds of food. I like Oreos."
But Oreos will never blight the Children's Success Academy as long as school director and founder Nanci Aiken is in charge.
Aiken, a scientist who holds a doctorate in cell physiology and once worked as a cancer researcher at the Arizona Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Medical School, is an unabashed food cop.
"I feel like the Wicked Witch of the West a lot of times, but it makes such a big difference,
