USDA to publish proposed rule on new nutrition requirements for School Programs
The proposed changes are based on recommendations from the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine in the report “School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children.”
This proposed rule would increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in school meals and reduce the levels of sodium (less than 1500 mg per day) and saturated fat (less than 7 percent of total calories) in meals.