A student puts apple slices on his tray during lunch at Central High School in St. Paul, Minn. Schoolchildren would have to pick up more whole grains, fruits and vegetables on the lunch line under proposed new federal standards for school lunches. The Agriculture Department proposal applies to lunches subsidized by the federal government and would be the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in 15 years.

Changes could be ahead for local lunch programs.

A new proposal by the U.S. Department of Agriculture would require schools with lunches subsidized by the federal government to cut the amount of sodium by more than half.

Lunches would also have to include more grains and low-fat milk.

They also would limit kids to only one cup of starchy vegetables a week, so schools couldn't offer french fries every day.

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