Summer salads with bold flavors and chili pepper sauce
Readable text details three to four salads featuring chicken and vegetables with picante sauce. Recipes cover chicken and garlic sauté, a pasta turkey corn salad, and a rice jicama avocado mix. Each section includes quantities, steps, chilling or serving notes, and optional garnishes.
Fat content variability in frozen dinners and rising obesity facts
The Institute of Food Technologists reports fat content in frozen dinners varies up to 250 percent. Overweight and obesity persist with 25 percent of women and 42 percent of men overweight, 14 percent of women and 12 percent of men obese. Childhood obesity rose 54 percent for ages 6 to 11 and 39 percent for ages 12 to 17 from the mid-60s to the late 1970s. In 1987, 7,855 new products featured nutritional modifications including 432 low calorie, 159 low fat, 120 low sugar, and 55 high fiber items.
Recipe Safety Checklist From USDA Hotline
The Linn County extension warns about bizarre cooking ideas such as dishwasher or engine cooked foods and urges consumer caution. The USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline provides a safety checklist including refrigerating perishable foods within two hours, cooking in a single step, maintaining constant heat, not cooking below 325 degrees, and promptly refrigerating leftovers.
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Foodstuffs Claim Health Gimmicks in Oat Bran and Olive Oil
An analysis notes Kellogg's Eggo Oat Bran Waffles contain little oat bran despite marketing claims and low fat content. It also critiques All Natural Olive Oil Pam spray for adding minimal monounsaturated fat and questions labeling claims and health impact. Judy Fitzgibbons, Cedar Rapids dietitian, provides interpretation.
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Sassy Barbecue Sauce Contest at Cedar Rapids Roundup
The Gazette hosts a sauce recipe contest tied to the Cedar Rapids Bar-B-Que Roundup July 1 to 4. Entries reviewed by three judges will yield three finalists announced June 28. Kirkwood Community College students will prepare finalist sauces for serving at The Gazette booth July 1 and 2, with public voting at the event.
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AHA Eases Egg Guideline After Cholesterol Reassessment
The American Heart Association now says four eggs per week are acceptable replacing three. The move follows Agriculture Department findings that eggs contain less cholesterol in yolks due to new testing, with measured levels dropping from 274 to 213 milligrams.
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