Nutritionists and consumer groups say the convenient snack should never have been included in government school lunch program.

This week, Kraft Heinz shared that it is pulling its Lunchables products from a program providing free and reduced meals to low-income school children across the United States. Here's why.

Last school year, food giant Kraft Heinz began offering its signature Lunchables for sale to school systems across the nation. But there was so little appetite for the ultra-processed product — which had been reformulated to qualify for free or reduced lunches — that the company has ceased sales to school districts.