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By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
Students: Get ready for pizza with whole-grain crust and bigger portions of fruits and vegetables on your school lunch tray. You’re still going to get french fries, but they’ll probably be baked and sprinkled with less salt.
Today the government is releasing new nutrition standards for school meals that spell out dramatic changes, including slashing sodium, limiting calories and offering students a wider variety and larger portions of fruits and vegetables. These changes will raise the nutrition standards for meals for the first time in more than 15 years.
“When we send our kids to school, we expect that they won’t be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we try to keep them from eating at home,” first lady Michelle Obama said in a statement. She is announcing the new standards today along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack…
