Levels would drop, for instance, from an average of about 1,280 milligrams of sodium allowed now per lunch for kids in grades 9 to 12 to about 935 milligrams. For comparison, a typical turkey sandwich with mustard and cheese might contain 1,500 milligrams of sodium.
The plan, detailed in a 280-page document, drew mixed reactions. Katie Wilson, executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, said the changes are “necessary to help America’s children lead healthier lives.”But Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association, a trade group, said school meals are already healthier than they were a decade ago and that increased regulations are a burden, especially for small and rural school districts.
Vilsack emphasized that the plan phases changes in over the next six years to allow schools and food manufacturers time to adjust to the new standards.
So not the same people(agency) who pushed the food pyramid starting in the 90s, or wait, no it is. Fantastic.
As taste goes by the wayside.
Not fast enough
It all tastes like cardboard now, so imagine how good it will be after.
School lunches should be real food. It's all fine to say let them eat pizza & tacos because that's what they like until they are 40 and die of a heart attack or stroke.
No way that should take 6 years.
should of been done years ago-why wait till 2029-get your ass in gear and do it now
I'm waiting for all the Republicans in Congress to start shouting give me salt or give me death and start investigating into it being cut back on
Give each kid a steak, a glass of whole milk, some fruit, and stop giving money to foreign aid
Why now? Inflation on sugar?
Schools should be making healthy homemade meals, fresh fruit and vegetables.
Sure cut salt and sugar, the food has no taste before and now just tastes like cardboard. no budget for any spices at all.
Also need to make lunches free for every student
Good. Americans are fat.
Yeah we care about kids. We'll get to that in a few years. 2029? Why?
It takes 6 years to reduce sugar and salt?
Meals already taste like shit..
Good luck getting manufactures to meet sodium guidelines for all the ready made foods schools use. Remember not all schools have commercial kitchens nor the space for them to make more fresh foods.
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Many kids already dislike school meals and bring their lunch, don't make it worse for them.
This is the only thing giving the food flavor LOL. Unless you get some real chefs in every school that know how to use spices and herbs in cooking - just forget it.
It only took how long to be responsible with our children?
They best be making school lunches free too
Obesity is crazy high, must be done. No more vending machines either
They already serve tasteless food that the kids hate, let’s make it even worse. The amount I see thrown away daily is unbelievable!!
Fox news: If we can't make mega-corporations rich while making our kids fat, do we even live in a free country?
Reading some of the comments here, it’s apparent that you’ve angered Big Sodium.
2029 🤣
I don't think it's the sugar, I think it's the supplier. Also it's not the sugar, it's the carbohydrates which are worse. Not eating breakfast is the single biggest catastrophe children face. Whether it's because they're parents don't buy food, or if they eat even a begal's carbs
By the time 2029 comes around, this will be cancelled or so watered down you won't recognize it.
Decades behind anything approaching responsible.
Your freakin' Country helped free Europe and defeat the Japanese in WW 2 in way less time then that!
Imagine being in a U.S. school concerned over the federal government doing nothing to stop mass shootings and all the best they can do is take pizza off the lunch menu.