| Rules may change soon at school districts that receive federal funding for school meals. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled new Dietary Guidelines for Americans earlier this year, which included a new food pyramid that emphasizes protein, encourages full-fat dairy and limits highly processed foods. Here's how the new food pyramid could eventually impact schools:
🍽️ Cutting back on highly processed and ready-to-eat foods like mac and cheese and pizza won't be easy. Companies may need to adapt their recipes, and schools might have to prepare more meals from scratch to reduce added sugars and salt.
🍽️ The agency may change school breakfast standards, which currently lack a protein mandate. It is unclear if milk would satisfy new protein requirements.
🍽️ Federal law limits saturated fat in school meals, and whole milk contains more saturated fat than low-fat or nonfat varieties. However, recent federal legislation exempts milk fat from those limits. | 
