Breakfast
What is juice
1 cup of leafy greens counts/credits as this amount of vegetables
1/2 cup
Option requires that all required components be offered but not required to be taken by student.
What is OVS
One-quarter cup of this food item counts as 1⁄2 cup of fruit
What is dried fruit
Schools must offer 1 cup daily & 5 cups weekly of this food item.
What is fruit
Schools must offer students this amount of required food components in at least the minimum required amounts.
What is 5
Food categories that make up a reimbursable meal (i. e. milk, meat/meat alternate, grains, vegetables, fruits)
All milk served must meet these two types of fat requirements.
What is FF or 1%
Schools may sub 1 oz. eq. of ____ for 1 oz. eq. of grains after the minimum daily grains requirement is met.
These components are required to be offered at lunch.
What are meats/meat alternates; grains; fruit; vegetables; and fluid milk.
Foods that are part of a food component (i. e. broccoli, cheese)
What is a food item.
At least this amount of grains offered weekly must meet the WG-rich criteria specified in FNS guidance, and the remaining grain items offered must be enriched.
What is 80%
These components are required to be served at breakfast.
Grains (with optional meats/meat alternates allowed); juice/fruit/vegetable; and milk.
For the purposes of the NSLP, the other vegetable sub group requirement may be met with any additional amounts from these sub groups.
dark green, red/orange, and beans/peas (legumes) vegetable subgroups.
Under OVS for this meal pattern, a student must take at least three components in the required serving sizes. One selection must be at least ½ cup from either the fruit or vegetable component.
This final rule will modify the proposed sodium standards and establish Sodium Target 1 as the sodium limit for school lunch and breakfast in SY 2022-2023 as proposed, but implement a Sodium Interim Target 1A effective for school lunch beginning what school year?
What is SY 2023-2024.
A student must be offered at least four food items and must select at least three food items, one of which must be ½ cup of fruit or vegetables for this type of meal service
This is the minimum amount of vegetables that must be offered to grades 9-12 at lunch
what is 1 cup
These are the goals of OVS
What is to reduce food waste in the school meals programs while permitting students to decline foods they do not intend to eat.
These are the vegetable sub groups that must be offered weekly.
Dark green, red/orange, and beans/peas (legumes), Other & starchy