Great GRains kids zoning in on nutrition education Whole Grain Fun Facts Whole grains are an important part of any healthy diet. They are a good source of fi ber, carbohydrates (energy) and many vitamins and minerals. Whole grains include • Each American consumes an average of brown rice, wheat, corn, and oatmeal and can be found in some of your Brown Rice Pudding 53 pounds of bread per year. That is favorite foods like bread, popcorn, and oatmeal cookies! Look about a loaf of bread each week! Ask an adult for assistance in in your kitchen to fi nd some of these items or others marked • About just over 60 million acres of using the stove for this recipe. “Whole Wheat” or “Whole Grain” and remember to try to wheat are harvested in the U.S. each make half of your grains whole! Ingredients: year. That is about the size of the state 2 cups cooked brown rice 1½ cups milk of Michigan! ¼ cup honey 1 Tbsp. butter • In 2006, the world’s largest popcorn ½ tsp. nutmeg ½ tsp. cinnamon ball was unveiled. It was 24.5 feet Whole Grain Word Search 1 tsp. vanilla across and weighed 3,415 pounds. Now that’s a lot of popcorn! See if you can fi nd the whole grains hidden in the puzzle below. 1 cup dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, etc.), if desired • More oatmeal is sold in January than 1. In a medium saucepan, combine rice, milk, honey, amaranth corn quinoa sorghum any other month. and dried fruit. Bring to a boil. barley millet rice spelt • In China, instead of asking each other 2. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes, buckwheat oats rye wheat “How are you?” people might ask each stirring frequently. bulgar other “Have you had your rice today?” 3. Remove from heat and stir in butter, spices, • Unlike other crops, wild rice is and vanilla. YCTFYMNHVNPYLTX harvested by workers in a canoe who TVFYIRTXWWWPMAB Enjoy! bend the stalks over their boat and KCZLONTTBBNCAEH beat the rice off.
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