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August 29, 2012|By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON -- With a appropriate school-snack affairs bent in the middle, Florida growers accept plunged into a aliment action in Congress that pits promoters of beginning bake-apple and vegetables adjoin producers of canned, broiled and arctic foods.

The fresh-versus-frozen lobbying altercate centers on a tiny but accepted federal affairs – accepted as the Beginning Bake-apple and Vegetable Affairs -- that provides chargeless added candy to schools in low-income neighborhoods. But it raises a beyond comestible agitation as able-bodied as a affray amid bread-and-butter interests.

Are beginning bake-apple and veggies developed in Florida's sunshine a bigger best than article cheaper that's frozen, broiled or preserved in a can?

Florida growers, who appetite to advertise added and added appurtenances to the academy market, are advancement Congress to accumulate the bite affairs fresh.

"The aboriginal absorbed was to betrayal accouchement to beginning fruits and vegetables who ability not contrarily be apparent to them," said Mike Stuart, admiral of the Florida Bake-apple & Vegetable Association, which represents growers beyond the state.

"If you attending at Florida's assembly season, it coincides with the academy year," he said. The bite affairs forth with added aliment demands in schools is a "minor allotment of our absolute bazaar at this time, but in my assessment it's a amazing befalling for growth."

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But some cost-conscious associates of Congress see no acumen to exclude beneath big-ticket products. So they added a accouterment to a acreage bill anesthetized by the House Agriculture Committee that would add frozen, canned and broiled appurtenances to the Beginning Bake-apple and Vegetable Program.

"Adding arctic fruits and vegetables would acquiesce academy nutritionists to serve them year-round at affordable cost," said Corey Henry, agent for the American Arctic Aliment Institute. "There are affluence of opportunities actuality for schools to amplitude their admired account dollars. Maybe they can serve added if they accept that option."

"We're not attractive at this as an bread-and-butter driver," he said of the $164-million beginning bite program. "It's an befalling to accomplish abiding schools can conserve dollars and to appearance that arctic aliment can comedy an important role in bistro healthy. If we are excluded, what does that acquaint people?"

School admiral in South and Central Florida about adopt to accumulate the beginning affairs fresh, while demography advantage of abounding local-grown offerings and some beneath accepted items such as kiwi, edamame, snow peas, zucchini annihilate or cauliflower.

"It's a amusement because it goes to every classroom," said Darlene Moppert, affairs administrator of diet apprenticeship at Broward County schools. She said acceptance adore experimenting with altered tastes. "One first-grader said [eating a radish] was like all-overs dancing on her tongue."

The beginning affairs – absolutely abstracted from after-school candy and subsidized lunches – gave Florida $6.5 actor this bookish year to administer to elementary schools with a aerial allotment of acceptance who authorize for chargeless or price-reduced lunches in low-income areas.

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Schools are appropriate to absorb the candy into classroom acquaint on nutrition. Those in South and Central Florida additionally advise the access amid aliment and the bounded farmers who autumn it.

"There's not annihilation amiss with arctic or canned, but back you can attending at a beginning artefact you are able to call it in added detail and appearance how it is unique," Moppert said. "It has added educational value."

Broward schools accustomed $517,450 to serve 18 of its schools this year. Palm Beach County schools accustomed $195,300 to serve six schools.

"Many of the beggared don't get comestible snacks," said Maggie Prieto, banking administrator for aliment casework at Palm Beach County schools. "With this program, it teaches them to go home and animate their parents to get that blazon of aliment back they go to the store."

Orange County schools accustomed $327,400 this year to serve 11 elementary schools.

"When their aeon are bistro it and their abecedary is experimenting with them, it goes over so abounding bigger than if it's aloof in the cafeteria, abnormally back they've never apparent it before," said Lora Gilbert, chief administrator of aliment and diet programs at Orange County schools.

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Florida schools can booty advantage of abounding beginning produce, she said, but conceivably districts in added genitalia of the country would account from canned or frozen.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who led conception of the affairs in 2002, fears the House bill would accessible the way to less-than-healthy foods. Someone alike appropriate beef jerky, he said.

"Kids adulation it and schools adulation it," Harkin said of the beginning affairs this week. "For every academy currently accommodating in the program, I accept three added cogent me that they appetite to do so as well."

The Senate adaptation of the acreage bill, which anesthetized in June, would accumulate the appropriate bite affairs fresh.

If the House passes a adaptation abutting ages that adds canned, arctic and broiled bake-apple and vegetables, leaders of the two accommodation will accept to accommodate this and abounding added differences afore casual a final acreage bill.

Wgibson@Tribune.com, 202-824-8256

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