{"id":58563,"date":"2025-08-04T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58563\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:10:09","slug":"rochester-hosts-minnesotas-largest-school-nutrition-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58563\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester hosts Minnesota\u2019s largest school nutrition event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnsna.org\/events-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mnsna.org\/events-registration\">Minnesota School Nutrition Association\u2019s (MSNA) 68th Annual Conference<\/a> began Sunday at Rochester\u2019s Mayo Civic Center. According to the organization, this is the largest school nutrition event in Minnesota, which will take place until Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe MSNA Annual Conference provides an excellent opportunity for school nutrition professionals to share best practices and connect with industry partners who support our programs,\u201d MSNA President Emily Malone said. \u201cThese collaborations are essential as we prepare for the new school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MSNA expected a total of more than 500 school nutrition professionals to gather at the conference. Malone said the event is an educational opportunity for the professionals to help strategize healthy meals for children\u2019s growth and well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe believe and we know that hungry kids cannot learn,\u201d she said. \u201cChildren are often eating their most healthy meals with us twice a day. We have free meals for kids in Minnesota, so we do a free breakfast for all students and a free lunch for all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With Minnesota being an agricultural state, Malone explained many school districts have robust farm-to-school programs. She said, \u201cWe are bringing food right from our local farmers and serving them to students. We really believe that it is important to teach kids where foods come from and help them be adventurous eaters so that they can have lifelong healthy-eating habits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Tuesday, the conference will feature the largest school nutrition exhibit show in the Midwest. This event will have 160 vendors, including Minnesota-based K-12 food manufacturers and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Attendees will sample low-sodium entr\u00e9es, plant-based and lean protein options, whole-grain items, and creative recipes designed to increase fruit and vegetable intake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 The Minnesota School Nutrition Association\u2019s (MSNA) 68th Annual Conference began Sunday at Rochester\u2019s Mayo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,6429,33320,44054,269,3100,3858,44053],"class_list":{"0":"post-58563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-mn","11":"tag-msna","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-rochester","14":"tag-school","15":"tag-school-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}