USDA provides guidance, resources, best practices, and training for CACFP operators in a variety of settings to support them in providing healthy, balanced meals and snacks to the children and adults …

Meal Patterns Questions about the latest meal patterns? Learn all about how to calculate, measure and credit all five components that you serve in the CACFP.

Apr 25, 2016 · The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has provided the following reference charts describing the CACFP MP requirements for infants, children, and adults, respectively.

Use the resources below to discover the components of the nutritious, well-balanced, and age-appropriate meals served. Please review the CACFP Record Keeping Requirements Reference …

Through USDA FNS guidance and collaboration, ICN developed the CACFP Meal Pattern Requirements training materials. This webpage features training materials and additional resources for …

CACFP meal patterns ensure participating children and adults have access to healthy, balanced meals, laying the foundation for a healthy eating pattern for children and adults in care. This brochure …

Full-strength juice may only be offered to meet the vegetable or fruit requirement at one meal or snack, per day. A vegetable may be offered to meet the entire fruit requirement.

Infant formula and dry infant cereal must be iron-fortified. Beginning October 1, 2021, ounce equivalents are used to determine the quantity of creditable grains. Fruit and vegetable juices must not be …

The CACFP meal pattern requirements support the service of a greater variety of vegetables and fruit, whole grains, lean meats/meat alternative, and low-fat and fat-free dairy while minimizing added …

The CACFP nutrition standards for meals and snacks served in the CACFP are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, science-based recommendations made by the National Academy of …