Title: Ketchup as a vegetable - Wikipedia
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Ketchup as a vegetable
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Summary
Legislative history
National School Lunch Act
Child Nutrition Act
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981
Food and Nutrition Service proposed regulations
Overall goals
Section I: removing red tape in record keeping & streamlining administration
Section II: meal crediting
School choice in crediting food alternates: pickle relish as a vegetable
Quantity reductions
Reaction
Ketchup
Changes in income eligibility
Diluting nutrition
Results
Similar efforts
See also
References

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The ketchup as a vegetable controversy refers to proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) regulations, early in the presidency of Ronald Reagan, that intended to provide more flexibility in meal planning to local school lunch administrators coping with National School Lunch Plan subsidy cuts enacted by the Omnibus Regulation Acts of 1980 and 1981. The regulations allowed administrators the opportunity to credit items not explicitly listed that met nutritional requirements. While ketchup was not mentioned in the original regulations, pickle relish was used as an example of an item that could count as a vegetable. A similar controversy arose in 2011, when Congress passed a bill prohibiting the USDA from increasing the amount of tomato paste required to constitute a vegetable; the bill allowed pizza with two tablespoons (30 mL) of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable. Ketchup alongside French fried potatoes; two products derived from plant materials, both in the genus Solanum
Contents
1
Summary
2
Legislative history
2.1
National School Lunch Act
2.2
Child Nutrition Act
2.3
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980
2.4
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981
3
Food and Nutrition Service proposed regulations
3.1
Overall goals
3.2
Section I: removing red tape in record keeping & streamlining administration
3.3
Section II: meal crediting
3.4
School choice in crediting food alternates: pickle relish as a vegetable
3.5
Quantity reductions
4
Reaction
4.1
Ketchup
4.2
Changes in income eligibility
4.3
Diluting nutrition
5
Results
6
Similar efforts
7
See also
8
References
Summary
The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, reduced the Federal School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs budget by approximately eight percent.