Posted on 03/29/2015 3:13:16 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Guess What Makes The Cut As A 'Smart Snack' In Schools? Hot Cheetos
Flamin' Hot Cheetos might conjure a lot of descriptors: spicy, crunchy, unnaturally fiery red. But it's a good bet that "healthy" didn't exactly spring to mind.
Yet it turns out that those fiery Cheetos beloved by school children (some kids even made an epic rap paean to Hot Cheetos a few years ago) actually qualify as a "Smart Snack" under revised federal nutrition guidelines for schools.
The Obama administration rolled out the new guidelines last year in a bid to limit the amount of junk food kids eat in school, but nearly half of all U.S. states have formally rejected the standards as too strict. Some legislators think the rules make it too hard for schools to raise money through snack sales at vending machines.
But at Chicago's Whitney Young High School, Flamin' Hot Cheetos remain among the most popular snacks sold. "They're good, like, they just taste delicious," says Cashari Norwood, a junior at the school. "And like, I'm a vegetarian and so sometimes, I just want to eat something that's good, and I can't even really get that here."
These aren't just any Flamin' Hot Cheetos. They're a reformulated version with less fat, less salt and more whole grains. But is that really what the scientists at the Institute of Medicine had in mind when they wrote the recommendations that would become the Smart Snack rules?
"Well, probably not," says Virginia Stallings, a professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She chaired the committee that helped make the federal rules.
"I thought the top sellers might be things that had more nutrients in them than Flamin' Hot Cheetos," she says.
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If this “diva” was sitting in a tub of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
she had better be wearing swimsuit bottoms.
Hoooo Haawtt!
Hot Cheetos Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Are this Cheetos that are stolen by ‘yutes’ while they a setting the retail Establishment on fire?
>> “like”...says Cashari Norwood, a junior at the school...”And ...like... <<
I’ve tried them and find them to be utterly nasty.
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