Industry pushes back against rule excluding cranberries as healthy food

Industry pushes back against rule excluding cranberries as healthy food

Wisconsin lawmakers, ag business drive back on federal rule that would exclude cranberries as a healthful meals

Industry pushes back against rule excluding cranberries as healthy food

Nutritious food items are not typically top of thoughts through the holiday seasons. But most of the calendar year, advertising a food as “nutritious” can catch a consumer’s eye.

The U.S. Foods & Drug Administration has a formal definition of what it suggests for a foodstuff to be balanced, which the company is at this time working to update. But some in Wisconsin’s congressional delegation and agriculture market fret the new definition leaves out cranberries and tart cherries.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin joined a bipartisan team of federal lawmakers in sending a letter to the head of the Food and drug administration, asking the company to make exceptions to the additional sugar restrictions for the two one of a kind fruits.