Addendum
Food Groups
Protein Foods |
Grains & Cereals |
Includes animal and vegetable foods a serving is 2-3 oz. cooked (boneless)of the following unless noted other otherwise.
- Bacon, 6 slices
- Beef: ground, roast, chopped
- Canned fish: tuna, crab, etc.
- Clams, 4 large or 9 small
- Crab
- Eggs, 2
- Fish: fillet, steak
- Fish: sticks, 4
- Hot dogs, 2
- Lamb: ground, roast, chopped
- Lobster
- Luncheon meat, 3 slices
- Organ meats: liver, kidney, tongue
- Oysters, 10-15 medium
- Pork: ham, ground, roast, chopped
- Poultry: ground, roast
- Rabbit
- Sausage links 4
- Shrimp, scallops, 5-6 large
- Spareribs, 6 medium ribs
- Veal: ground roast, chopped
Milk & Milk Products
A serving is 8 oz. or 1 cup unless noted otherwise.
- Cheese: hard and semisoft (except blue, Camembert & cream), 1 ½ oz.
- Cheese Spread, 2 oz.
- Cottage Cheese, 1 1/3 cups
- Cow’s Milk: whole, nonfat, low fat, nonfat dry reconstituted, buttermilk, chocolate milk, cocoa made with milk.
- Cream Soups made with milk, 12 oz. Evaporated milk, 3 oz. Goat’s milk
- Ice Cream, ½ cup
- Ice milk
- Milkshake, 8 oz.
- Puddings, custard, flan
- Yogurt
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Choose whole grains over enriched grainproducts and enriched products over non-enriched products.
- Brown rice, ½ cup
- Cereals, hot: oatmeal, cracked wheat, etc., ½ cup.
- Cereals, ready-to-eat: puffed oats, shredded wheat, granola, ¾ cup
- Wheat germ, 1 tbsp.
- Bread: 1 slice
- Cereals, hot: cream of wheat, cream of rice, cornmeal, ½ cup
- Cornbread, 1 piece (2” square)
- Crackers, 4
- Macaroni, noodles, spaghetti, cooked ½ cup
- Muffin, biscuit, dumpling, 1
- Pancake, 1 medium
- Rice, cooked, ½ cup
- Roll, bagel, 1
- Tortilla, corn 2
- Tortilla, flour, 1 large
- Waffle, 1 large
Leafy Green Vegetables
A serving is 1 cup raw or ¾ cup cooked
- Asparagus
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Dark, leafy lettuce: chicory, endive, escarole, red leaf, romaine.
- Greens: beet, collard, kale, mustard,
spinach, Swiss chard, turnip
- Scallions
- Watercress
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Vitamin-C Rich Fruits & Vegetables
Fresh, frozen or canned forms may be used although canned products have alower Vitamin C content.
Juices:
- Orange, grapefruit, 4 oz.
- Tomato, pineapple, 12 oz
- Fruit juices and drinks-enriched with Vit. C, 6 oz.
Fruits:
- Cantaloupe, ½
- Grapefruit, ½
- Guava, ¼ medium
- Orange, 1 medium
- Papaya, 1/3 medium
- Strawberries, ¾ cup
- Tangerine, 2 small
Vegetables:
- Bok choy, ¾ cup
- Broccoli, 1 stalk
- Brussels sprouts, 3-4
- Cabbage, cooked, 1 1/3 cups
- Cabbage, raw, ¾ cup
- Cauliflower, raw or cooked, 1 cup
- Greens: collard, kale, mustard,
- Swiss Chard, turnip greens, ¾ cup
- Peppers: green, red, ½ med.
- Tomatoes, 2 medium
- Watercress, ¾ cup
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Other Fruits & Vegetables
A serving size is ½ cup either fresh, frozen or canned unless noted otherwise
Vegetables:
- Artichoke
- Bamboo shoots
- Bean sprouts: alfalfa, mung
- Beet
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Eggplant
- Beans: green, Wax
- Hominy
- Lettuce: head, Boston, bib
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Pea Pods
- Potato
- Radishes
- Summer squash
- Sweet potato
- Winter squash
- Yam
Fruits:
- Apricot, fresh, 1 large
- Nectarine, 2 medium
- Peach, fresh, 1 medium
- Prunes, 4
- Pumpkin, ¼ cup
- Apple, 1 medium
- Banana, 1 small
- Berries
- Cherries
- Dates, 5
- Figs, 2 large
- Fruit cocktail
- Grapes
- Kumquats, 3
- Pear, 1 medium
- Pineapple
- Plums, 2 medium
- Raisins
- Watermelon
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