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“Salt and Eat It or No Salt and Trash It?” Shifts in Support for School Meal Program Flexibilities in Public Comments

In 2017 and 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed flexibilities to nutrition standards for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. Published as part of a special issue in the journal Nutrients, this study presents findings from a content analysis of public comments posted to the Federal Register about the proposals.

Project: Implementation of School Meal Program Flexibilities

Citation

Moreland-Russell, S., Zimmermann, N., Gannon, J., Ferris, D., Alba, C., & Jacob, R. R. (2025). “Salt and Eat It or No Salt and Trash It?” Shifts in support for school meal program flexibilities in public comments. Nutrients, 17(5), Article 839. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17050839