Pizza a vegetable, says US Government

[Admin]

EAT YOUR GREENS: A serving of pizza only needs two tablespoons of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable under US nutritional guidelines.


The US House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday (Friday NZT) by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza's status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million US school children.
The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after the deep-pocketed food, beverage and restaurant industries successfully weakened government proposals for voluntary food marketing guidelines to children.

Pizza a Vegetable - US House of Representatives | Stuff.co.nz

 

[dave]

oh yeah.

 

[Admin]

so not only is a pizza a vegetable now , but they have also re-classified tomato's , last time i heard they were a fruit

 

[Rugby88]

I'll agree with that...

 

[Gunner]

Tomato is a fruit ffs. Damn yanks and their FDA

 

[bigD]

brb, off to fruit and veg market to get some fresh pizzas

 

[dave]

Don't worry there are some really good fruit and veg chains that deliver all over australia.

Try:

1300 DOMINOS

and

13 11 66

 

[oldcorollas]

so... i don't need to count pizza in my macros? awesome!!

 

[dave]

so... i don't need to count pizza in my macros? awesome!!

Good thinking.

 

[Bazza20]

Well im gettin in plenty of veggies today.

 

[Rambodian]

LOL, FFS this is just rediculous!
SOOOOO glad my little ones are not in a yank school (shakes head)