Flamin' Hot Cheetos come under fire at an ABQ school

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The popularity of Flamin' Hot Cheetos has fired up a health teacher at Lyndon B Johnson Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That teacher says the snack food poses many problems and she wants it banned from school.

  

A letter to parents urges them to keep the Cheetos off of campus for many reasons including poor nutritional value.  The letter also states they share the Cheetos, spreading germs. And the last and messiest reason, janitors have to clean up red fingerprints everywhere from the dye in the Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Chante Coleman told KTLA she tries to control her daughters eating habit.

Coleman-"My daughter brings snack packs to school; I don't have her bringing a family size pack of Cheetos to school. Just because I know my child and I know she would eat the whole bag in one day. I do appreciate that the school is trying to take charge in that way to keep the kids healthy and active."

The school is encouraging children and parents to replace the Flamin' Hot Cheetos with a healthier snack. A regular bag has four servings but administrators are concerned many students will eat the whole thing, consuming 44 grams of fat and nearly 700 calories all at once.  That’s about half the caloric intake a teenager needs in a day.

For Newsbreak New Mexico, I’m Vanessa Dabovich

Flamin' Hot Cheetos come under fire at an ABQ school