The US Department of Agriculture finalized a regulation on April 24 to limit added sugars to 10% of the calories in school meals by 2027.

The regulation had first been proposed in February 2023, but several provisions were revised due to feedback from food corporations, school nutrition professionals and public comments.

This will be the first large-scale alternation of school meal standards passed since the Obama administration’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010, which effectively reduced BMI rates for children and teenagers.

“All of this is designed to ensure that students have quality meals and that we meet parents’ expectation that their children are receiving healthy and nutritious meals at school,” Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, said in a call with reporters according to the New York Times.