Offer vs Serve Regulations
ServeSafe
School Lunch
School Breakfast
Fruits & Vegetables
100

At lunch, what is the maximum number of meal components a student may decline?

What are 2 components?

100

What does HACCP stand for?

What is Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point?

100

What federal program provides nutritious lunches to millions of students each school day?

What is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)?

100

According to school meal guidelines, what are the three food components that students must be offered at breakfast?

What are fruits, grains, and milk?

100

What vitamin-rich fruit is known for helping support the immune system and is high in vitamin C?

What is an orange?

200

Under federal regulations, what is the primary purpose of Offer Versus Serve?

What is reducing food waste while allowing students food choice?

200

Which pathogen is most commonly linked to bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods?

What is Norovirus?

200

How many meal components are offered as part of a school lunch? Name them.

What are five meal components? (Fruit, Vegetable, Grain, Meat or Meat Alternate, and Milk)

200

Eating breakfast can help students improve what two things at school?

What are focus and learning (or concentration and memory)?.

200

Name two vegetables that are dark green.

What are spinach, broccoli, kale, romaine lettuce, etc.?

300

Which meal component may be offered as two separate food items at breakfast to meet OVS requirements?

What is the grain component?

300

What is the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in retail foodservice operations?

What is poor personal hygiene?

300

This is other requirement, besides taking three meal components, that is needed to make a lunch reimbursable.

What is taking at least 1/2 cup of fruit or vegetable?

300

To make a reimbursable school breakfast, students must select at least how many food items?

What is 3 food items? (One must be at least ½ cup of fruit or vegetable.)

300

Botanically speaking, which common vegetable is actually a fruit because it contains seeds?

What is a tomato?

400

What is the "Point of Service"?

The place where a student's meal is counted as reimbursable.

400

What is the maximum amount of time a ready-to-eat TCS food can be held without temperature control if time is used as a public health control?

What is 4 hours?

400

Which meal component can be credited as both a vegetable and a meat/meat alternate depending on how it is served?

What are beans/legumes?

400

What federal program helps schools provide nutritious breakfasts to students?

What is the School Breakfast Program (SBP)?

400

Approximately what percentage of your plate should be fruits and vegetables according to MyPlate?

What is 50% (half of the plate)?.

500

Offer Versus Serve is designed to help students take food they are more likely to do what with?

Eat it.

500

A thermometer is inserted into a turkey and reads 165°F in one spot but 152°F in another. Is the turkey done?

No. The thickest part must reach the required temperature.

500

How many different vegetable subgroups must be offered each week? Name them.

What are 5? (dark green, red/orange, beans & peas (legumes), starchy, and other. 

500

Which nutrient found in whole-grain breakfast foods helps keep you feeling full longer and supports digestion?

What is fiber?

500

Name the five vegetable subgroups recognized by USDA MyPlate.

Dark Green, Red & Orange, Beans/Peas/Lentils, Starchy, and Other Vegetables.

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