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Pasta has been as a vegetable in U.S. schools. An overhaul of national dietary regulations has in pasta now counting towards the vegetable requirements in school lunches across the USA. The new school guidelines were by the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week. The rules that: "Pasta made of vegetable flour may as a vegetable, even if the pasta is not with another recognizable vegetable." Pasta can only regarded as a vegetable serving if it is with potato, soy or other starchy, vegetable-based flour. Shocked critics of the new rules that bread could be regarded as a vegetable as that is also from flour.

Other changes include the of fruit given to children for breakfast and the provision of a greater selection of burgers, fries, pizza and other high-calorie food that full of saturated fat and salt. The Agriculture Secretary the guidelines. He said the new rules would food waste. He said the new policy was necessary because, "a more common-sense flexibility is to provide students with nutritious and appetizing meals". The guidelines the Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which was by Michelle Obama. A health expert said: "This absolutely no sense. Politics and industry pressure should not with what is best for children's health."