Texas school pilots nationwide project to photograph how much students are eating for lunch | Mail Online

• Computer program analyses calorie content
• Project piloted in area where third of children are overweight
  

An inventive - if rather complex - experiment has been introduced to help curb obesity and improve pupils' eating habits.

A $2 million project photographs students' lunch trays before they sit down to eat and then takes a snapshot of the leftovers.

A computer program then analyses the images to identify every piece of food on the plate - right down to how many ounces in a leftover lump of mashed potato - and calculates the calories each student has eaten.

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