This is similar to when the national nutrition standards for schools considered ketchup as a vegetable. Remember that? Now they’re saying that the pizza sauce on pizza is considered a vegetable. They have got to be kidding – I was half expecting this news item to be from The Onion (who are notorious for spoofing the news).
Don’t believe me? Start here with the article at the Huffington Post on Pizza is a Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic….
They also had a link to this cute video with Kermit decrying this decision to turn something that’s nutritionally lacking (to say the least) and cloak it as a healthy vegetable:
Update 11/22/11:
Ok, so here’s the other side of the coin, so to speak. The Washington Post clarifies that the nutritional standards really don’t say anything about pizza specifically (and its nutritional content for kids), but looks at the tomato paste on it. Here’s a rundown of how tomato paste stacks up against other fruits/vegetables: No, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable.
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