{"id":218580,"date":"2026-04-04T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:07:22","slug":"florida-snap-sets-new-restrictions-on-food-purchases-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218580\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida SNAP sets new restrictions on food purchases \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthysnap.myflfamilies.com\/recipient\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/healthysnap.myflfamilies.com\/recipient\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Florida<\/a> will no longer be allowed to purchase certain foods and drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Starting April 20, soda, energy drinks, candy and ultra-processed shelf-stable prepared desserts will be excluded from SNAP purchases, according to the Florida Snap program.<\/p>\n<p>The program said the change comes to provide low-income households with access to a more nutritious diet.<\/p>\n<p>Items allowed under SNAP Benefits<\/p>\n<p>Fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, dairy and other staples that support a balanced diet<\/p>\n<p>Sport drinks, plain or naturally flavored sparkling waters and drinks that contain more than 50% juice or have less than 5 grams of added sugar per serving<\/p>\n<p>Coffee, tea, and sports drinks<\/p>\n<p>Granola bars, breakfast toaster strudels, breakfast biscuits and breakfast toaster pastries<\/p>\n<p>Freshly prepared baked goods<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the new SNAP benefit purchase restrictions, click <a href=\"https:\/\/healthysnap.myflfamilies.com\/recipient\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/healthysnap.myflfamilies.com\/recipient\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Florida will no longer be allowed to purchase certain foods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}