{"id":14526,"date":"2012-10-30T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14526"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:00:33","slug":"why-floridas-new-lunch-requirements-limit-fat-and-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/30\/why-floridas-new-lunch-requirements-limit-fat-and-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Florida&#8217;s New Lunch Requirements Limit Fat And Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14528\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 225px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/30\/why-floridas-new-lunch-requirements-limit-fat-and-calories\/watermelon-by-moreno0101-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14528\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14528\" title=\"watermelon by moreno0101\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/watermelon-by-moreno01011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">moreno0101\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auburndale Fruit Company supplies watermelon as part of Florida\u2019s \u201cFarm to School\u201d Program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida and other states are phasing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/cnd\/lunch\/\">new standards for school lunches<\/a>. Fat and calories are being reduced as more fruits and vegetables are offered.<\/p>\n<p>The National School Lunch Program requirements stem from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/cnd\/governance\/legislation\/cnr_2010.htm\">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act <\/a>of 2010, which focuses on improving child nutrition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Starting this school year (2012\u20102013),<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/cnd\/Governance\/Policy-Memos\/2012\/SP10-2012ar4.pdf\">school lunches have new requirements<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Age\u2010appropriate calorie limits<\/li>\n<li>Larger servings of vegetables and fruits<\/li>\n<li>A wider variety of vegetables, including dark green and red-orange vegetables and legumes<\/li>\n<li>Fat\u2010free or 1% milk (flavored milk must be fat\u2010free)<\/li>\n<li>More whole grains<\/li>\n<li>Less sodium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Food service workers spend a lot of time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshforfloridakids.com\/Portals\/0\/pocket%20guide%20proof%204-complete.pdf\">planning and calculating proper servings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been through a lot of training, according to outreach manager Jackie Moalli with the state agriculture department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey worked over the summer to make sure that they understood what the requirements would be and how to accommodate them,\u201d Moalli said. \u201cGetting that right mix of the right types of vegetables as well as the portion sizes really was a learning process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Calorie guidelines for school lunches include less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elementary- 550 to 650<\/li>\n<li>Middle- 600 to 700<\/li>\n<li>High- 750 to 850<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grains and breads for elementary students are limited to nine 1-ounce servings a week. That means sandwiches can\u2019t be on the menu each day because that would equal ten servings in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam recently told the Economic Club of Florida there is a correlation between bad eating habits that start early and the cost of health problems decades later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re content to serve tater tots and ketchup and call it a starch and a vegetable, we will pay the economic consequences of doing that,\u201d Putnam said. \u201cThat\u2019s an inefficient market in a state that produces 300 different things, all of which your mother would be proud for you to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putnam said an array of produce is readily available fresh during most school months &#8212; like leafy greens and blueberries.<\/p>\n<p>So the state now has a program that <a href=\" http:\/\/www.florida-agriculture.com\/business\/fooddist\/farmschool\/growers.html\">matches local farms with nearby schools<\/a> to supply cafeterias with fresh produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida and other states are phasing in new standards for school lunches. Fat and calories are being reduced as more fruits and vegetables are offered. The National School Lunch Program requirements stem from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which focuses on improving child nutrition. Starting this school year (2012\u20102013), school lunches have new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1126,1045,617,614,1021,1128],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14537,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions\/14537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}