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February 3, 2023
American schoolchildren could be getting school lunches that have less sugar and salt in the future, thanks to new nutrition standards announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday. These are the first school lunch program updates since 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. What’s different this time is a limit on added sugars, starting in the 2025-2026 school year. Limits would at first target high-sugar foods, including sweetened cereals, yogurts and flavored milks…
Not everyone thinks the changes are the answer.
“School meal programs are at a breaking point,” said Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the trade group School Nutrition Association, told the Associated Press. “These programs are simply not equipped to meet additional rules.” Courtney Gaine, president of the Sugar Association, expressed concern about the use of sugar substitutes and said the proposal ignores the “many functional roles” sugar plays in food.
Read the full article here: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-02-03/usda-proposes-new-rules-to-cut-sugar-salt-in-school-meals
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January 16, 2025
“Referred to as the ‘Nutrition Info box’, the new label proposal would provide accessible, at-a-glance information about saturated fat, sodium and added sugar. That would then be accompanied by the existing Nutrition Facts label elsewhere on the package. Current federal dietary recommendations advise US consumers to limit these three nutrients. These would be rated as […]
January 15, 2025
“FDA’s proposal to mandate front-of-pack nutrition labeling that quantifies and qualifies the percent daily value of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar to help consumers more easily make informed dietary choices triggered frustrated outcry from industry trade groups and accolades from public health advocates. Industry trade groups, including the Consumer Brands Association, the Sugar Association […]
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