New Food Labels List Serving UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) —The Food and Drug Admi nistration (FDA) has established new nutrition labels, called Nutri tion Facts, which will be on most packaged foods by May 8. “Some foods in the supermarket already carry the new label, and you will see more appear as the May deadline for compliance approaches,” says Dr. J, Lynne Brown, associate professor of food science in Penn State’s Col lege of Agricultural Sciences. “The labels should help con sumers better understand the con tents of packaged foods,” says Brown. “For example, how often have you tried to compare the fat content of two types of cookies using the old nutrition label? A serving was listed as so many cookies, but the nutrition label listed ounces. How many cookies made an ounce? The label didn’t tell you." The new regulations require serving sizes to be listed in house hold units if possible. Household MILK. IT DOES A BODY GOOD.' Sizes That Makes Sense units are cups and parts of cups, tablespoons and teaspoons. “Serv ing sizes for breakfast cereals, for instance, soon will be listed as cups or parts of cups,” says Brown. “The household measure always will be followed by the gram weight, such as. Serving Size 1/2 cup (114 g).” Serving sizes for cookies, large pretzels, muffins, sliced breads, slices of cheese and similar foods will be listed in units such as two cookies, one muffin or one slice of cheese.- Some foods will continue to list serving sizes in ounces. Items that use this option may include pick les, shellfish, whole fish and fish fillets. “However, labels on these foods will give die consumer an idea of how many pieces make a serving,” says Brown. “A saving of frozen shrimp might be listed as 3 ounces (84 g/about S shrimp). The label on a jar of dill pickles will list the saving size in ounces but also will indicate its equiva lence in pickles.” Serving sizes listed on cakes, frozen pizzas, pies and other foods that are served as fractions of a whole also will be easier to under stand. “FDA has defined consumer-friendly fractions that the agency hopes all consumers can understand or easily visual ize,” says Brown. “You will soon see more labels on frozen pies aiid cakes that list the serving size as 1/6, 1/5 or 1/8 of the whole.” Frozen dinners and main-dish products, such as single-serving microwaveable spaghetti, soon will list serving sizes as the amount in the container. “FDA requires this if the food can be eaten in one sitting,” says Brown. Consumers who buy foods sold by weight-control programs and not through regular supermarkets will not see a change in serving size measurements. “Weight control programs that sell special ly portioned food only through their programs do not have to use serving sizes that conform to the new FDA regulations,” says Brown. Tf I ! ■ - v. • ■ ,<J ■■ !/> aJßgit v SEE YOUR NEAREST DEALER FOR DEMONSTRATION ANSWER Gail Hunter, Smithsburg, Md., wanted a recipe for Peanut Butter Melt Away Filling and any other great candy fillings. Here are two candy recipes. Butterflnger Peanut Butter Bars 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar Vi cup brown sugar 2Vi cups cooking oats 6-ounces semi-sweet chocolate morsels % cup crunchy peanut butter Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add quick-cooking oats. Mix well. Press into 2-quart util ity dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes until slightly firm to touch. Place chocolate morsels and peanut butter in a dou ble boiler over boiling water. Stir until melted. Spread melted chocolate mixture over warm oat mixture. Cool. Cut into squares. Yield: 45 squares. m %- * ~ *jUt 1 - "in fey ‘ v ~ » %>• • IV M MV | V 3 ' v> &' ‘' x 'lK. ... A-Jta»‘SS*i* Philadilohia Af«a DELAWARE VALLEY BOBCAT 215-828-2800 Homv Grove. PA NORMAN D. CLARK l ibanpn. PA EVERGREEN TRACTOR CO. 717-272-4641 1-800-441-4450 & SON INC. 717-734-3682 CLARKLIFT SERVICES 215-670-2950 Mill mil, pa DUNKLE & GRIEB 717-726-3115 B»lhl«h«m. PA 215-868-1481 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 19,1994*89 Cook’s (Continued from Page B 8) i* . " ... ,j£. £ ll U_ “"’' *;-iu «M, ~~, ,1 m- * lp *’ ~ t#• > ■ AO&T With more than 30 attachments available you truly can do it all with a Bobcat machine The rugged Bob-Tach mounting system makes changing attachments a snap Write or call for free 32-page Buyer s Guide Malrot Company P O Box 6019 Fargo ND 58108 6019- (701) 241 8700 Qwiwillt. PA GRUMELLI’S FARM SERV. 717-786-7318 Question Corner to* ifc- T- g «.*y rMGCAQf commmt Towtnda. PA S.P.E. INC. 717-265-4440 BEST LINE LEASING, INC. 717-546-8422 800-321-2378 CLUGSTON AG & TURF, INC. 717-263-4103 Hanovar. PA FINCH SERVICES 717-632-2345 Naadmon. PA CLUGSTON FARM EQUIPMENT 717-573-2250 Millmhirg. PA DS & B REPAIR 717-966-3756 Hormdalr PA CHARLES H. SIEPIELA, INC. 717-253-3334
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