Over half of the nation’s students participate in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which serves over 5 billion meals a year. That’s a lot of meals, providing the dairy community with a tremendous opportunity to ensure that the milk and dairy foods experience is maximized.
School meals have changed over the past two decades in response to the increase in overweight youth, as well as those living in food-insecure households. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 put an even stronger emphasis on nutrition standards for school meals to help address these challenges.