Posted on 12/23/2005 1:39:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Roll over oats: Breakfast cereals and other foods that contain barley also will be able to start claiming they can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
The disease kills 500,000 Americans a year.
Labels on whole barley and dry milled barley products, including flakes, grits, flour and meal, are expected to start making the claim, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday in announcing its ruling. The claim is identical to that already made on many oat products.
The FDA estimates a quarter of the hot breakfast cereals, and another 5 percent of the cold cereals, sold in the United States will start boasting their health benefits. The breakfast cereal market is worth $7.1 billion a year, according to the FDA.
Products must provide at least 0.75 grams of soluble fiber per serving to make the health claim, the FDA said. Scientists believe a high-fiber diet helps lower cholesterol levels.
The FDA took the action in response to a petition by the National Barley Foods Council, whose members produce the nation's estimated $864 million annual barley crop. A unit of Cargill Inc., the Minneapolis-based agribusiness, helped underwrite the cost of the petition, according to the council.
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On the Net:
Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov/
National Barley Foods Council: http://www.barleyfoods.org/
Isn't barley in beer?
In that case I'm livin to be 100.
Birds fly over a field as a farmer harvests his barley crop in an undated photo. Cereals, breads and other products containing whole or milled barley grain can now claim to reduce the risk of heart disease, U.S. health officials said on Friday. (Patrick Price/Reuters)
Ahem... beer is "the juice of the barley".
Yup.
Barley, water, hops and yeast
What's in Beer
http://home.howstuffworks.com/beer2.htm
Although there are barley grits, real grits are made of hominy corn. Here is an interesting quote about the history of grits from Quaker Grits
Turner Catledge, former editor of the New York Times, called grits "the first truly American food." Grits date as far back as 1607, when the colonists came ashore at Jamestown, Virginia. They were met by friendly Native Americans offering steaming hot bowls of "rockahominie," which was softened maize seasoned with salt and animal fat. It was here that our passion for grits was born.
They are attempting to widen the market for coarse grains such as barley that can be grown in marginal climates.
They must be right about their claim that barley is good for you. Barley is one of the foods mentioned in the Bible. I believe the ancient Isrealites had a barley festival. I don't recall anywhere in the Bible where the ancient Isrealites had a frankfurter or ice-cream festival.
Yes. Buy the imports or micro-brews though. The domestic assembly-line swill won't do you any good.
Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA
Merry Christmas!
Anything about Kasha? ;')
Kasha is good stuff, I agree.
I eat Granola when I can, there are a lot of good ones out there todayblend.. I like the cranberry myself. :}
should have read..
I eat Granola when I can, there are a lot of good ones out there today.. I like the cranberry blend myself. :}
Grape-Nuts, despite the name, has no grapes, and no nuts. It is however barley-rich. One of my favorite cold cereals is to mix up Grape-Nuts and Old-Fashioned Quaker Oats (uncooked), then soak 'em in milk for a while (ten minutes at least) to soften them up, then eat 'em. All that barley now joins all those oats as being soooo good for me. ;')
thank you and a Merry Christmas to you too.
I don't think I'll be eating barley grass tonight, perhaps after the new year.
I like sausage and eggs better,.
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