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Pick up Panko.


Which bread crumbs would you buy?

Brand A consists of wheat (white) flour, high fructose fructose (frŭk`tōs), levulose (lĕv`yəlōs'), or fruit sugar, simple sugar found in honey and in the fruit and other parts of plants.  corn syrup corn syrup

Sweet syrup produced by breaking down (hydrolyzing) cornstarch (a product of corn). Corn syrup contains dextrins, maltose, and dextrose and is used in baked goods, jelly and jam, and candy.
 (sugar), corn syrup (sugar), partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, water, salt, and a few dozen other ingredients.

Brand B is nothing but whole wheat flour Noun 1. whole wheat flour - flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
graham flour, whole meal flour, graham

wheat flour - flour prepared from wheat

Britain, Great Britain, U.K.
, malt extract (sugar), yeast, and sea salt.

Stuck? Here's a clue: Brand A has 220 milligrams of sodium and 1 gram of fiber in every (quarter-cup) serving, while Brand B has 25 mg of sodium and 2 grams of fiber.

Brand A is Progresso Plain Bread Crumbs. Brand B is lan's Whole Wheat Panko Breadcrumbs, which are available in health food stores nationwide. (Think of Progresso Italian Bread Crumbs, with 470 mg of sodium, as a bottom-of-the-barrel Brand C.)

Panko, or Japanese-style, bread crumbs are coarser than regular crumbs CRUMBS is an improvisational theatre duo based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The duo consists of two actors, Stephen Sim, and Lee White. Other members include videographers, musicians, photographers, webmasters, illustrators, producers, agents, publicists, graphic
. That keeps them light and crunchy, Ian's is one of the few--maybe the only--whole wheat versions.

Toss some in your salad. Crown your casserole with a sprinkling. Or type "panko chicken recipe" or "panko salmon recipe" into Google, then weed out anything that's heavy on ingredients like salt or butter.

You'll be left with dishes like the mouth-watering mouth·wa·ter·ing or mouth-wa·ter·ing  
adj.
Appealing to the sense of taste; appetizing: the mouthwatering aroma of a baking pie.

Adj. 1.
 Panko-Crusted Salmon at elise.com or the Cajun Oven-Fried Chicken at cookinglight.com.

Sometimes a simple ingredient list means a simply delicious dinner.

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Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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