Four schools chose to retain Pabulum for a further five years, totalling £8.4m, and a further eight retained Pabulum for between two and four years each, with contracts worth £6.3m in total.
Aspens, which provides catering services to schools in England and Wales, has seen sales grow by an average of 44% a year over the last 3 years.
The competition, now in its 16th year, is open to all fill-time and college-based modern apprentice chefs.
National company Accuro Catering works with an array of education, hospitals and healthcare clients and this recent acquisition will give Servest Group an increased presence in these key sectors.
The hospital treated 24 babies and toddlers under three years old for obesity in 24, up from 15 in 2014, four in 2013, two in 2012 and just one in 2011.
The competition aims to support the current curriculum, whilst highlighting the important role school food plays in getting pupils ready to learn.
Mucavele has been at the forefront of the charity’s work over the last decade developing national school food standards and the first guidelines to help young children eat better.
Councillor Lynda Rice, said: “It was fantastic to see so many smiling faces as the young people tucked into healthy and mouth-watering festive food.
A Sheffield-based weight management programme, SHINE, and a Leeds Beckett researcher believe there is currently a lack of direction and guidance for severely obese children in young people in acces