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Pasta is
classified as a vegetable in U.S. schools. An
of dietary
means pasta now counts towards the vegetable requirements in school lunches in the USA. New school guidelines, released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week, stipulate that: "Pasta made of vegetable
may credit as a vegetable,
if the pasta is not served with
recognizable vegetable." Pasta can
be a vegetable
if it is made with potato, soy or
vegetable-based flour. Critics of the rules joked that
could be a vegetable as that is made from flour.