Does trying to pick out a healthy loaf of bread, crackers or pasta sometimes cause confusion while reading the labels? It certainly can be if we don’t know what to look for!
When reading a label it is important for us to look for the word “whole.” We should look for items that have the ingredients; whole wheat, whole grain, etc! Also, look for the Whole Grain label. To help you out, we have included a sample of that label below!
Eating a diet with whole grains is an important part of eating a healthy diet! The Dietary Guidelines recommends we eat at 6 servings of grains a day and at least 3 servings be Whole Grain! If this is new for your, start making these changes slowly to help your stomach adjust to these changes.
This week, at the Hope Community Center for Mental Wellness, we discussed how to identify whole grains with ease and choosing grains with fiber in mind. We ended class making a Great Grain Salad and a Blueberry Chicken Pasta Salad. Our salads were full of whole grain couscous and pasta and fresh Kale of the OSU Extension garden! They were a delicious spin on a fresh summer salad!
