Regulation: USDA has issued MEMO SP 15 - 2017 «Flexibility for the Target 2
Sodium Requirements for School Year 2017 - 2018».
Creating menus that include «creditable» amounts of the required components in the required serving size that don't exceed calorie, fat, and
sodium requirements forces menu planners to use processed food in the interest of time and money.
Interest groups expect the agreement to be somewhere between relaxing whole grain and
future sodium requirements, as proposed by Sen. John Hoeven (R - N.D.), and a one - year waiver from all new standards for schools losing money, as proposed by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - Ala.).
Meanwhile, according to Politco, 41 lawmakers (of which three are Democrats) were planning to send a letter to USDA late last week seeking to achieve the same ends, as well as suspending
stricter sodium requirements due to go into effect in 2017.
The Association cites survey data indicating that 65 percent of school districts are having trouble with whole grains and 92 percent
with sodium requirements.
The Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved bipartisan legislation (PDF) that would prevent the USDA from enacting more
stringent sodium requirements in schools until further research is conducted, require the USDA to identify alternative products that schools can use when whole grain pastas and breads are not available, and require the department to offer training and technical assistance to schools struggling to meet the nutrition requirements.
Based on this, I estimate this you'll get plenty of potassium for the day and 15g lite salt gives you roughly half the
daily sodium requirement.
A pair of requirements served as guidelines for the team:
the sodium requirements set by healthcare facilities and the all - natural requirements set by the USDA (which Hormel defines as «all - natural foods, or «whole» foods, containing no artificial ingredients, colors, flavors or preservatives»).
Here is the link to the memo for additional information about the possible flexibility on implementation of the Target 2
Sodium requirement.
(For instance, the wrap is whole wheat, and the filling adheres to low - fat, low -
sodium requirements.)
Sen. John Hoeven (R — ND) spoke about the Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act, a bill he introduced with Sen. Angus King (I — Maine), that would freeze in place the whole grains and
sodium requirements.
The bill would maintain current fruit and vegetable requirements for school meals but relax the whole grain and
sodium requirements to help schools that have struggled to meet more stringent standards imposed by the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010.