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The Biden administration could change lunch period forever.
The Department of Agriculture is considering a ban on flavored milk in school lunches, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This would mean the end of chocolate milk in lunches, as well as strawberry and other flavors.
Federal nutritionists say that the flavored milks create a preference for sugary drinks — themselves a menu item that fuel childhood obesity and poor diets later in life, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“From a public-health perspective, it makes a lot of sense to try to limit the servings of these flavored milks because they do have quite a lot of added sugar,” Erica Lauren Kenney of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health says of the drinks.
However, chocolate milk still has its defenders.
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