This week, politicians at the French National Assembly agreed on an amendment to allow meal ticket holders to purchase fruit and vegetables at retail outlets.
The aim is to enable the 2.7m people that currently use such tickets to more readily reach their 5-a-day quota of fruit and vegetables.
Butchers, bakeries and sandwich shops already accept these tickets, argued Valérie Boyer of the centre-right UMP party, who recommended this very step last September as a means of tackling obesity.
The amendment will now be passed to the Senate for approval.
