Participant food preferences (both cultural and personal).The need for additional seafood in the packages because of the importance of this food subgroup and the nutrients it contains to specific stages of development present in the WIC-participating population.The flexibility of the cash value voucher (CVV) and its potential value to participants.The value of the food packages to the mother–infant dyad.Within this process, the committee also recognized a number of other factors relevant to the revisions. Possible revisions to the food packages were identified systematically with the use of the decision tree described in Chapter 5. In particular, the committee sought to fulfill its task to align the WIC food packages with the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) by designing packages that were balanced across the food groups and supplemental in amount.
The committee’s overarching strategy for revisions, as articulated in Chapter 1, combined the iterative process illustrated in Figure 1-1 withġ Unless otherwise indicated, use of the word revised in this chapter refers to the revisions proposed in this report, not revisions that occurred in 2009. Chapter 10 presents the projected cost effects of the revised food packages over the long term. The changes proposed herein are evaluated against the committee’s seven criteria in Chapter 9 and recommendations for implementation and research to evaluate the changes proposed are described in Chapter 11. The revised food packages based on all proposed changes are presented in Tables 6-1 and 6-2, 1 and specifications for WIC foods are presented in Table 6-4. Finally, proposed changes to specifications for WIC-eligible foods are reviewed. Next, a brief discussion on proposed changes to food package III is presented. Women and children are covered first, followed by infants, because the rationale for many of the changes is similar for the foods in packages for women and children. Then, proposed changes to all food packages for women, infants, and children are reviewed along with the rationale for each change. The chapter begins with a review of the committee’s overarching strategy for making food package changes. In this chapter, the committee’s recommendations for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package changes are described.
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