Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Title 105 CMR 225.000 - Nutrition Standards For Competitive Foods And Beverages In Public Schools › Section 225.003 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
A la Carte Entrée
means a single food
				or combination of foods offered as a main course or central focus of a meal,
				generally a protein source.
Artificial Sweeteners
means substances
				added to food or beverages to provide a sweet taste while providing few or no
				additional calories, including aspartame, sucralose, acesufame-K, neotame,
				sugar alcohols and saccharin.
Competitive Foods or Beverages
means
				all foods or beverages sold or provided in:
(1)
a la carte
lines in school
				cafeterias;
(2) school stores;
(3) school snack bars;
(4) vending machines; and
(5) any other locations in public schools; provided, however,
				that competitive foods or beverages shall not include foods sold or provided as
				part of the School Breakfast Program, the School Lunch Program and the Child
				and Adult Care Food Program of the United States Department of Agriculture;
				provided further, that competitive foods or beverages shall not include
				non-sweetened carbonated water.
Fresh
means fresh, frozen, dried or
				canned without added sugar, fat, or sodium, for the purpose of
				105 CMR 225.000.
Grain-based Products
means food
				products in which the primary ingredient is grain, including pasta, crackers,
				granola bars, chips and bakery items.
Item
means one serving of a
				product.
Low-fat
means three grams or less per
				Reference Amount Customarily Consumed (RACC) standards established by the
				federal Food and Drug Administration.
Natural Flavorings
means the essential
				oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydroplysate, distillate, or any
				product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring
				constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable
				juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material,
				meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof,
				whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.
Nutrition Standards
means the minimum
				standards for beverage and food nutrition established in
				105 CMR 225.000.
Public School
means an elementary,
				middle, high, charter, innovation or comparable school operated by a public
				school district or board of trustees pursuant to M.G.L. c. 71.
Reduced Fat
means at least 25% less
				fat per Reference Amount Customarily Consumed (RACC) than an appropriate
				reference food.
School Day
means the hours of the day
				that students must attend school.
Sweetener
means a substance derived
				from a natural product that is added to food or beverages to provide a sweet
				taste. Such a substance may be nutritive or nonnutritive. A nutritive sweetener
				may be either naturally occurring, such as honey, or refined from plants, such
				as sugar from sugar cane. Nonnutritive sweeteners include products that may be
				regarded as natural.
Trans Fat-free
means zero grams of
				trans fat per portion as packaged (<= 0.5 g per portion), or as otherwise
				specified by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Whole Grains
means grains or the foods
				made from them that contain all the essential parts and naturally occurring
				nutrients of the entire grain seed. If the grain has been processed, the food
				product should deliver approximately the same balance of nutrients found in the
				original grain seed. For purposes of
				105 CMR 225.000, whole
				grain should be the primary ingredient by weight (
i.e
., whole
				grain listed first in the ingredient statement).