SHOPP Act of 2025
Key claim: The SHOPP Act of 2025 would expand USDA’s GusNIP Nutrition Incentive and Produce Prescription programs to include fresh frozen fruits and vegetables (and legumes in the Produce Prescription Program) and prioritize projects that increase year-round nutrition incentives for SNAP participants.
Abstract
(HR1782 · 119th Congress) Supporting all Healthy Options when Purchasing Produce Act of 2025 or the SHOPP Act of 2025 This bill modifies the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) to include fresh frozen fruits and vegetables. GusNIP is a Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that provides grants for projects that increase low-income consumers’ purchases of fruits and vegetables. It is made up of three competitive grant programs, including the GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program, which provides grants for projects that provide incentives for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase fruits and vegetables. The bill directs USDA, in awarding GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program grants, to give priority to projects that increase year-round availability of nutrition incentives by offering fresh frozen fruits or vegetables in the program. In addition, the bill amends another GusNIP program, the Produce Prescription Program, to include fresh frozen fruits and vegetables, as well as fresh and fresh frozen legumes. Currently, only fresh fruits and vegetables are covered under the program. The GusNIP Produce Prescription Program supports projects that demonstrate and evaluate the impact of fruit and vegetable prescriptions on increasing procurement and consumption of fruits and vegetables, reducing individual and household food insecurity, and reducing healthcare usage and associated costs. Latest action (2025-03-28): Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Why this matters
GusNIP is the principal federal vehicle for tying SNAP dollars to increased fruit and vegetable consumption, so expanding eligible foods to fresh frozen produce and legumes (and prioritizing year-round incentives) directly affects which farmers and processors can participate and what SNAP households can affordably buy. Frozen inclusion could broaden participation in regions and seasons where fresh produce is scarce or expensive, potentially stabilizing demand for growers supplying frozen supply chains without altering underlying SNAP benefit levels or food prices.