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MAGNUM P.U.


Have we got the perfect snack for you ... perfect for right after that T-bone steak and onion rings and right before that big cigar.

Open the wrapper of a Breyers Magnum Bar and get ready for five minutes of frozen pleasure. Feel the real cream in the ice cream as it coats your mouth. Taste the coconut oil and palm oil in the two chocolate coatings that cover the ice cream and sandwich the thin layer of Soft Strawberry or Soft Caramel.

And make sure you pucker puck·er  
v. puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers

v.tr.
To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.

v.intr.
 your lips, because with each bite you'll be kissing your daily fat and saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be  quotas goodbye.

A Magnum has just over 20 grams of total fat. That's not the end of the world (although downing almost a third of a day's fat in just one four-ounce ice cream bar An ice cream bar is a frozen dessert on a stick or a candy bar that has ice cream in it. The coating is usually a thin layer of chocolate. Sometimes there is some crunchy goodness on the outside too.  does seem a little much). It's the 14 or 15 grams of saturated fat--more than you'll get from a five-ounce Klondike Bar--that put them in steak-and-stogie territory.

To your poor coronary arteries Coronary arteries
The two main arteries that provide blood to the heart. The coronary arteries surround the heart like a crown, coming out of the aorta, arching down over the top of the heart, and dividing into two branches.
, a Magnum looks like a McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Translation: three-quarters of a day's sat fat.

Eat the burger plus the Magnum and.... we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 how good you are with fractions, but trust us: when it comes to bad fat, three-quarters plus three-quarters ain't good.

Good Humor--Breyers: (920) 499-5151.
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Title Annotation:high saturated fat content of ice cream bars
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2000
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