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Naked Chef Jamie Oliver’s push for healthier foods to replace greasy french fries, chicken nuggets and turkey twizzlers on British school menus is in a twist.

Apparently, the students aren’t anxious to try it.

The celebrity chef has led a nationwide campaign to improve the quality of food served in schools, demanding more money for meals and a ban on junk food. His TV series “Jamie’s School Dinners” exposed how cafeteria menus relied on prepared foods like chicken nuggets or the turkey twizzler – a corkscrew of mainly reconstituted turkey scraps and preservatives. Such meals, usually served with piles of fatty french fries, could cost as little as 66 cents.

Spurred to action, the government set up the School Food Trust in 2005 to help schools improve the quality of their food. Sample menus for the new program included vegetarian quiche, lentil burgers and mushroom tagliatelle.

But more than 424,000 students opted out of their school meal plans in the first two years of the program, according to government figures obtained by the opposition Liberal Democrats and released Monday.

The figures show a 17 percent drop among secondary school students and a 9.6 percent drop among primary school pupils since the 2004-2005 school year. Students who opt out must either pack their own lunch or buy it elsewhere.

Oliver is best known as the star of the television show “The Naked Chef” – a reference not to nudity but to the bare simplicity of his recipes. Although he remains the public face of the effort to get children to eat healthily, he has no formal role in the School Food Trust.

Nevertheless, on Monday the chef urged parents and the government to stay committed to the program.

“I’m still committed to it, but really over the next five years, we’ll see that negative turn into a positive,” he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. “We have to be philosophical, we have to keep supporting it,” he said. “We have to know and do what’s best for our kids.”