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SMART SNACKS

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HE-0820 Smart Snacks

Smart Snacks

HE-0820 New March 2004. Barbara Struempler, Extension Nutritionist, Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, Auburn University

Snacks are an important part of eating. They provide nutrients and food energy to go, grow, and learn. Following these suggestions will help you make smart snack and drink choices. Read Nutrition Facts and use the % Daily Values on product labels to guide your snack selections. Remember, the amount counts!

Our definition of a smart snack is one that contains at least 6% Daily Value of one or more vitamins, minerals, or dietary fiber, less than 10% Daily Value of Total Fat and Total Carbohydrate, and no more than 360 milligrams (mg) sodium. The following snack foods and drinks meet our Smart Snack guidelines.

How do your snack choices stack up?

Important!

Aim for at least 5 Fruits and Vegetables a Day

Fresh Fruits	Dry Fruits	Fresh Vegetables
1 piece or ½ cup Apples Bananas Grapes Oranges Grapes Peaches Pears Pineapple slices/chunks Plums Strawberries	¼ cup Apples Apricots Bananas Cherries Plums Raisins (about 2 tablespoons)	Broccoli florets Baby carrots Celery sticks Cherry tomatoes Grape tomatoes Corn on the cob Cucumber chips Sweet potato wedges Zucchini sticks

Fruit Containers

Fruits in single serving cans or in cups are handy and healthy.

Del Monte Lite Pack—diced peaches and mixed fruit

Dole Fruit Gel Bowls

Dole Fruit Bowls

Mott's Applesauce

Bread and crackers made of whole wheat, rolled oats, or other whole grains are smartest. Check first ingredient on the label.

Bread

Sandwich bread (1 slice)

Pita bread (1.2)

Flour tortillas (1)

Bagels (l.2)

Crackers

Great Value Cheese and Bacon Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value Cheese Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value Double Cross Baked Crisp Snacks (7 crackers)

Great Value Reduced Fat Wheat Baked Crisp Snacks (16 crackers)

Great Value Vegetable Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value White Cheddar Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Cheese Nips (31 pieces)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Triscuits (7 crackers)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Wheat Thins (l6 crackers)

Southern Home Snack Crackers (5 crackers)

Cookies

Great Value (12 pieces), Kellogg�s, and Nabisco Animal Crackers (24 pieces)

Nabisco Fig Newtons, reduced fat and regular (2 bars)

Great Value, Kellogg's, Nabisco, and Southern Homes Graham Crackers, regular and low fat (2 cracker sheets)

Murray Ginger Snaps (15 cookies)

Great Value Oatmeal cookies (2 cookies)

Kellogg�s Rice Krispies Treats Original (1 square)

Nabisco Teddy Grahams (24 pieces)

Bud�s Best Reduced Fat Vanilla Wafers (11 wafers)

Great Value Vanilla Wafers (7 wafers)

Running late? On the go? Keep individual snack packages on hand. Look for ones that contain protein and are fortified with nutrients.

Breakfast Bars and Cereal Mix

(1- to 11.4-ounce bars)

General Mills Chex Morning Mix
General Mills Milk 'n Cereal Bars—Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs
Kellogg's Special K Bar
Kellogg's Nutri Grain Cereal Bars—all varieties
Kellogg's Nutri Grain Twists—Apple Cobbler, Cappuccino & Cream
Quaker Oats Fruit and Oatmeal Bars—all varieties
General Mills Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars—Fruit and Nut Apple Cinnamon
General Mills Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars—all varieties
Keebler Journey Bars151;Apple Cinnamon, Peanut Butter Fudge
Quaker Oats Chewy Granola Bars—all varieties

Chips, Pretzels, and Rice Cakes

(1-ounce servings)

Frito Lay—Baked Potato, Baked BBQ, and Baked Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps
Frito Lay—Baked Cooler Ranch and Baked Nacho Cheesier Doritos
Ruffles Baked Potato and Baked Cheddar and Sour Cream Potato Crisps
Southern Home Mini Twist Pretzels, Fat Free (IS)
Snyder's Pretzels and Sour Dough Pretzels
Quaker Oats Rice Snacks, mini (7 cakes)

Drinks

Water: Water—tap; Dasani water; Aquafina water; Fruit₂0; Fruit₂0 Plus
Milk (8 ounces): 1% or skim milk, white; 1% or skim milk, flavored; Soy milk
Fruit and Vegetable Juices (6 to 12 ounces): Dole Juice Boxes—Orange, Strawberry Banana, Pine-orange Banana; Minute Maid Juices to Go—Orange, Orange Blend, Apple, White Grapefruit; Minute Made Juice Boxes—all varieties; Mott�s Juice—Orange, Apple; Treetop Juice—Apple, Grape; Dole Juice—Pineapple; Juicy Juice—All varieties; Tropicana Juice—Orange, Apple, Grape, Grapefruit; Welch�s Juice—Grape; Very Fine 100% Juices—Apple, Orange, Grape, Grapefruit, Tomato Juice; V8 Juice
Sports Drinks (12 ounces or less): Gatorade; PowerAde; Propel

Nuts and Seeds

Nuts are Smart Snacks because they are good for the heart. They are high in fat so only eat a handful (1 ounce).

Cracker Jacks Nothing But Nuts—Original and Toffee Peanuts >Frito Lay Honey Roasted, Hot Roasted, Salted Roasted Peanuts

Frito Lay Regular and BBQ Sunflower Seeds, Sunflower Seed Kernels

Frito Lay Smoke Flavored Almonds

Lance Cashews

Lance Honey Toasted and Salted Peanuts

Lance Pistachios

Lance Sunflower Seeds

Low-Fat Dairy Foods

Cheese: (1 slice/1 serving); Reduced fat varieties: American, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, mozzarella, string, Swiss
Pudding: Hershey (1 tube) Portable Pudding, all flavors; Kozy Shack (4-ounce cup) No sugar added; Winky Pudding Pals (4-ounce cup) all flavors
Yogurt
Yogurt can be high in sugar. Check the Nutrition Facts on the label.: Breyers (8-ounce cup) Light Fat Free, all flavors; Breyers (4-ounce cup) Smooth and Creamy, all flavors; Colombo (8-ounce cup) Light, all flavors; Dannon (4-ounce cup) Fruit Blend and Light N Fit, all flavors; Dannon (6-ounce cup) Light Fit, all flavors; Dannon (7-ounces) Light and Fit Smoothie; Great Value (6-ounce cup) Light low fat, all flavors; Penn Maid (8-ounce cup) Light, all flavors; Winn Dixie (8-ounce cup) Fat Free, all flavors; Yoplait (6-ounce cup) Light, all flavors; Yoplait (4-ounce cup) Custard Style; Yumsters, all flavors; original, all flavors; Trix, all flavors; Frozen Yogurt (½ cup)

For more information, contact your county Extension office. Visit http://www.aces.edu/counties or look in your telephone directory under your county's name to find contact information.

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