I wish I could tell you that this is something that we didn’t already know. After USDA mandates were passed on “healthy” school lunches in 2012 and the Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010, a recent University of Vermont study indicates that while students need to fill up their plate with a fruit or vegetable-as required by USDA, the fruit or vegetable does not end up in their stomachs…

…it ends up in the trash!