Texans are taking a closer look at food labels after SNAP rules change

From KUT News:

On a grocery run in early April, Sandra Allen added a Welch’s juice product to her grocery basket at Target in Pflugerville. She had often used her SNAP benefits to buy juice for her 9-year-old daughter in the past. But this time, she couldn’t make the purchase: Texas implemented a new law that prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from being used to buy candy or sweetened beverages.

Allen knew this change was coming. She just didn’t expect it to apply to apple juice…

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