School-Meals Makeover Stirs the Pot
Cafeteria worker Janice Robinson places trays of pizza alongside fresh fruits at James B. McPherson School in Chicago. School meals would be required to include more fruits and vegetables under proposed federal rules.
—John Zich for Education Week
Across the country, school cafeteria managers, farm lobbyists, food companies, celebrity chefs, students, and parents have started...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story, and the chart that accompanied it, misstated the amount of whole grains that would be required in bread products if proposed federal nutrition standards are adopted. The article should have said that, if approved, the new rules require that, in the first two years after the regulations are final, half of all bread products served in schools must be whole-grain rich, which means they contain at least 51 percent or more whole grains. After that, all grains served would have to be 51 percent or more whole grain.
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