Title: Ketchup as a vegetable - Wikipedia
Headings: Ketchup as a vegetable
Ketchup as a vegetable
Contents
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

Content: 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. Building upon these reductions, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 (passed as the Gramm-Latta Budget) made further spending cuts to the Federal School Lunch Program decreasing its fiscal year 1982 budget by 25 percent. To administer the requirements made by both Omnibus Reconciliation Acts of 1980 and 1981, the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) was tasked with proposing ways to implement the regulations while maintaining nutritional requirements for school lunches despite the lower funding. Among the recommendations made by the Food and Nutrition Service 's September 3, 1981 Regulations was a proposal to give local school lunch administrators flexibility in accrediting substitute food items that met FNS nutritional requirements and regulations. The report stated an item could not be counted as a bread that was not enriched or whole-grain, "but could credit a condiment such as pickle relish as a vegetable." While ketchup was not specifically mentioned as a potential substitute, critics demonstrated outrage in Congress and in the media against the Ronald Reagan administration for cutting school lunch budgets and allowing ketchup and other condiments to count as vegetables.