![]() Therefore, it should not be surprising that for average 8-year-old American girls and boys, Snickers (58.7 grams) contributes almost 21 percent of the recommended daily allowance of protein, 13 percent of the niacin RDA, 15 percent of the vitamin E RDA, 8 percent of the riboflavin and calcium RDAs, 7 percent of the Vitamin B12 and zinc RDAs, 22 percent of the magnesium RDA and 5 percent of the iron RDA. ![]() To set the record straight, Snickers meets USDA's nutritional criteria for sale in schools participating in the federal school lunch program.Īs its label clearly indicates, Snickers is made from wholesome American agricultural commodities including milk, egg whites, peanuts, flour, cane sugar, soy protein and corn syrup. Your July 30 editorial "Raisin Wars" disparages the Snickers candy bar by stating that if the Agriculture Department's Women, Infants and Children program were to include Raisin Bran, it would "open the flood gates to government subsidized Snickers Bars for poor and nutritionally deprived families." The editorial's erroneous implication is that Snickers is nutritionally undesirable.
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