{"id":85269,"date":"2025-12-16T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:51:14","slug":"florida-set-to-cut-junk-foods-from-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85269\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida set to cut \u2018junk foods\u2019 from SNAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beginning in early 2026, the Florida Department of Children and Families will implement changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The changes will disallow the purchase of soda, energy drinks, candy and ultra-processed desserts with SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The updates are part of an effort to promote healthier food choices among households using SNAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By limiting access to sugary and highly processed items, DCF aims to align with the program\u2019s goal of providing better nutritional options for participants.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The changes to SNAP will restrict the purchase of common junk food items, which proponents argue will encourage families to choose more nutritious alternatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beginning in early 2026, the Florida Department of Children and Families will implement changes to the Supplemental Nutrition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,414,11732,13331],"class_list":["post-85269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-snap","tag-snap-benefits","tag-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85269","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=85269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}