Do snacks ?made with real veggies? count as vegetables"
Gloria Santiago is always looking for ways to add more fruits and vegetables into her kids? snacks. Like many children, her son Brayden, 6, and daughter Catalina, 4, are not huge fans of snacking on carrot sticks and broccoli. So she was excited when she found granola bars and chips that were made with real vegetables and fruit.
There are many snacks for kids that have packages that boast ?made with real fruit and veggies.? And with a quick scan of the ingredients lists on the crackers, fruit chews or chips that make these claims, you?ll find dried or dehydrated vegetables, fruit purée or fruit concentrate.
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But do granola bars, fruit chews or veggie chips with a smattering of dried spinach or pureed grapes actually count as a serving of vegetables" Nope.
Unfortunately, these ingredients don?t provide a ton of nutritional value because such a small quantity is used. An actual serving of vegetables or fruit is a half-cup. The little bits of dried veggies or puréed fruit in these snacks won?t add up to much more than a teaspoonful at most. That?s a huge difference.
Some food manufacturers go one step further and claim their products contain nutrients found in one serv...
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