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Whole everything.


It's not because they're 100% whole grain. It's not because each cookie has about a gram of fiber. The best reason to try Nabisco 100% Whole Grain Fig Newtons 100% Whole Grain Chips Ahoy cookies is much simpler: they taste better.

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.
 gives the cookies more character--more full-bodied flavor and texture. One bite and you'll have no desire to go back to the blander, more-homogeneous (and less-nutritious) white-flour versions.

Bonus: Fig Newtons are one of the few cookies that supply some real fruit along with their sugar, flour, and fat (like their non whole-wheat counterparts, the new Fig Newtons and Chips Ahoy are free of trans fat trans fat  
n.
1. A trans fatty acid.

2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group.



trans fat  

A fat containing trans fatty acids.
).

And Nabisco backs up its whole-grain claim with a number 100%--so consumers know exactly how much of the flour is whole wheat.

Of course, both the Newtons and Chips Ahoy are still, well, cook ies. Each packs roughly 50 calories a pop. Even whole-grain cookies shouldn't squeeze baby carrots, cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. , clementines CLEMENTINES, eccl. law. The name usually given to the collection of decretals or constitutions of Pope Clement V., which was made by order of John XXII. his successor, who published it in 1317. The death of Clement V. , or other fruits and vegetables out of your snack supply.

But if you're reaching for a cookie anyway, reach right here ... that is, until Pepperidge Farm Pepperidge Farm was founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand for a property her family owned in Connecticut (which itself was named for the pepperidge tree, Nyssa sylvatica). In 1961, the company was purchased by Campbell's. , Mrs. Fields, Keebler, and other bakers get on the whole-grain train.

Whole-grain Milanos? It could happen.

Nabisco: (800) 622-4726.
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Date:Nov 1, 2005
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