In the panel discussion, experts discussed how shifting WIC food packages to only whole grain-rich cereals could raise costs. Such a move to offer only whole grain breakfast cereals would bring WIC food packages in line with requirements already in place in other federal feeding programs such as the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program.Ĭurrently 93% of children and 100% of women in the WIC program do not meet the recommended intake of whole grains, and WIC food packages require only half of the breakfast cereals to be whole grains, despite NASEM recommendations. The paper highlights several key recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report in 2017, such as adopting a whole grain-rich definition for breakfast cereals in WIC food packages. ![]() ![]() The panel discussion was recently reported in the peer-review journal Cereal Chemistry by Joanne L.
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