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July 19, 2013 Zucchini bread is By Martha Filipic 614-292-9833 not a vegetable [email protected] We’ve been making doesn’t include calorie and other Editor: nutrition information, you can plug This column was reviewed by Carolyn Gunther, (and eating) a lot of the ingredients into any of several zucchini bread lately. Is community nutrition education free online calculators to figure that specialist for Ohio State it as nutritious as I hope out. Just search for “recipe nutrition University Extension, the it is? calculator” to find one. outreach arm of the College Also, you can easily adjust your of Food, Agricultural, and As with any homemade dish, the zucchini bread recipe to make it Environmental Sciences. nutrition really depends on your healthier. Try these: recipe. • Substitute half of the flour with Zucchini itself is a great vegetable. Communications and whole-wheat flour, or use whole- A half-cup of sliced raw zucchini or Technology wheat pastry flour entirely. Using other summer squash contains just 10 Strategic Communications whole-wheat flour instead of standard 2021 Coffey Road calories but supplies 15 percent of the white flour increases your intake Columbus, OH 43210-1044 daily recommendation for vitamin of whole grains. The U.S. Dietary 614-292-2011 C, as well as a gram of fiber and good Guidelines recommend that half the amount of vitamin K, riboflavin, 208 Research Services grains we eat be whole grains, which Building vitamin B6, folate, magnesium and have more vitamins, minerals and 1680 Madison Ave. potassium. fiber than refined grains. Wooster, OH 44691-4096 If you don’t peel the skin, you’ll 330-263-3780 • If the recipe calls for oil, use have the added benefit of getting a applesauce instead (use a one-to-one healthy dose of the nutrients lutein Ohio State University Extension substitution). A half-cup of oil has embraces human diversity and and zeaxanthin — carotenoids that nearly 1,000 calories, while a half-cup is committed to ensuring that all can promote healthy vision and research and related educational of applesauce has just 50. potentially offer other health benefits. programs are available to clientele • Use liquid egg substitute or egg on a nondiscriminatory basis As for zucchini bread, most recipes whites instead of whole eggs. One- without regard to age, ancestry, call for one to two cups of grated color, disability, gender identity or quarter cup of liquid egg substitute expression, genetic information, zucchini per loaf. If you use one cup, equals one egg; whites from two eggs HIV/AIDS status, military status, you would have to eat half the loaf national origin, race, religion, sex, equal one whole egg. This reduces to get a half-cup serving of zucchini. sexual orientation, or veteran calories and cholesterol. status. This statement is in (Um, that’s not recommended.) • Try reducing the sugar in the accordance with United States Suffice it to say, that slice of Civil Rights Laws and the USDA. recipe by one-quarter. Reducing zucchini bread on your plate doesn’t Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice sugar from one cup to 3/4 cup saves President for Agricultural legitimately count as a vegetable. nearly 200 calories in the loaf. Administration; Associate Dean, You can find a wide range of College of Food, Agricultural, and Chow Line is a service of Ohio Environmental Sciences; Director, calorie counts in different zucchini State University’s College of Food, Ohio State University Extension; bread recipes. A quick online search Agricultural, and Environmental and Gist Chair in Extension results in recipes that offer anywhere Education and Leadership. Sciences and its outreach and research For Deaf and Hard of Hearing, from 87 calories per slice (in a arms, Ohio State University Extension please contact Ohio State “low-fat, low-calorie” recipe) to 260 and the Ohio Agricultural Research University Extension using your preferred communication (e-mail, calories per slice (in a recipe that and Development Center. Send relay services, or video relay jazzes up the bread with chocolate questions to Chow Line, c/o Martha services). Phone 1-800-750-0750 and almonds). Filipic, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday. Inform the If the recipe that you’re using OH, 43210-1044, or [email protected]. operator to dial 614-292-6181.