Ketchup as a vegetable a bill that barred the USDA from changing its nutritional guidelines for school lunches. The proposed changes would have limited the amount of potatoes allowed in lunches, required more green vegetables, and declared a half-cup of tomato paste to count as a serving of vegetables, rather than the current standard of 2 tablespoons. The blocking of these proposed higher standards meant that the smaller amount of tomato paste in pizza could continue to be counted as a vegetable in school lunches. The move resulted in widespread mockery, with headlines saying Congress had declared pizza to be a vegetable. The blocking
Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine, called "utan", "utan bisaya", "sinabawang gulay", "law-oy" or "laswa" in various regional Philippine languages, are vegetable soups usually served with steamed rice. The dish usually consists of leaves of "Moringa oleifera" (known in the Philippines as "kamunggay", "marunggay", "balunggay" and "malunggay"), okra, pumpkin or squash ("kalabasa" or "calabasa"), leaves of "Basella alba" ("alugbati"), the long, slender oriental variety of "eggplant" ("talong" or "tawong"), ginger root ("luya" or "luy-a"), tomatoes ("kamatis"), yard long beans ("sitaw", "batong" or "balatong"), taro root ("gabi"), scallion ("sibuyas dahon") and may contain Chinese cabbage or headed