The whole-grain oatmeal is a new healthy menu item served hot in a cardboard to-go bowl. For $2.45, buyers also get to pick two of three mixes for the oatmeal: dried fruit, nuts or brown sugar. Executives expect the instant oatmeal to be the most popular new item. It will roll out with the promotional tag line: Make Morning Good Again. Schultz says they “cracked the code” on oatmeal, and its aroma does not detract from the coffee aroma in stores.
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Starbucks to sell oatmeal
Aug 26
Sara Lee has built the nation’s best-selling brand, but are struggling to make profit. They came up with one of the biggest innovations in the bread world in recent years: Soft & Smooth. A bread with 30 percent whole grains, it’s aimed at providing more nutrition than white bread but with white-bread texture. Soft & Smooth has become Sara Lee’s best-selling bread line, and has prompted competitors to offer their own whole-grain hybrids. read more in the Chicago Tribune.
27 healthy americans aged 50 or over completed the 8-week study. Intervention participants used a PDA programmed to monitor their vegetable and whole-grain intake levels twice per day and to provide daily individualized feedback, goal-setting, and support. Veggi intake rose 1.5-2.5 servings/day and grains rose 3.7-4.5 servings/day.
Low glycemic index carbohydrate diets are associated with the prevention of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. While lower carbohydrate, higher protein diets also increase the rate of weight loss, cohort studies and meta-analyses of clinical trials suggest the potential for increased mortality.
72,113 US women who ate lots of vegetables, fruit, legumes, fish, poultry, and whole grains had 22% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and 16% lower risk of dying from cancer compared to those with high intakes of red meat, processed meat, refined grains, french fries, and sweets/desserts.
4 healthy men and 9 women in Sweden were given glucose solution, fermented whole-grain barley or fermented whole-grain oat. Blood samples were collected directly before the meals and 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 min after the start of the meal. Glycemic index and insulin index of meals were calculated. The mean blood glucose responses for both the barley and the oat meals were significantly lower than from the reference glucose load.
Given the low level of understanding, it’s no surprise that most people also have trouble deciphering the difference between multi-grain and whole-wheat flour in a loaf of bread.
8 telephone counselings over 3 months increased vegetable intake by 67% and fruit intake by 71%. Whole grain servings per day rose from 1.0 serving per day, 6 months 1.4 servings per day (40% increase). This result is based on an uncontrolled pilot trial with 97 California adults.
Watch this video and find out if Papa John’s healthier whole-wheat crust pizza does taste as good as traditional pizza?
Center for Science in the Public Interest has announced its intention to sue baked goods manufacturer Sara Lee for “misleading” claims about the whole grain content in some of its products.