Question

Describing Missions of Federal Nutrition Programs

Choose the federal programs being described from the drop-down menus.
Provides federal assistance for healthcare and nutrition for women, infants, and children:
Provides low-income individuals and families with food stamps:
Provides students with low-cost or free meals:

Answer 1

1. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

2. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

3. National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): it provides federal assistance for healthcare and nutrition for women, infants, and children. It's a special supplemental nutrition program designed to provide nutrition education, social services and healthcare referrals and supplemental food for low-income level pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, infants, and nutrition-disadvantaged children who are up to age five (5)

2. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): it's a federal program that provides low-income individuals and families living in the United States of America with food stamps so they can purchase healthy food and attain self-sufficiency in the long-run.

3. National School Lunch Program (NSLP): it provides students in both public and private schools in the United States of America with low-cost or free nutritionally balanced meals.