 Barilla
Pasta – Healthy Partner
If you love to eat pasta, you’ll love this fact even more: pasta
is a great partner that can actually help you maintain healthy
eating.
A 1-to-2-cup serving of cooked pasta is low in calories (200),
low in fat (1 gram, with no saturated fat), cholesterol-free,
and sodium-free (unless you add salt to the cooking water). Pasta
is a good source of thiamin, iron, riboflavin, and niacin, and
provides 2 grams of dietary fiber and 7 grams of protein per serving.
Pasta is a great way to get grain-based food into your diet. If
you eat a reasonably sized portion of cooked pasta – 1 to 2 cups*
– you’ll be getting 2 to 4 of the USDA recommended daily servings
of grain-based foods.
In addition, pasta is enriched with folic acid, a form of folate
and an important B-vitamin that reduces the risk of some serious
types of birth defects when consumed before and during early pregnancy.
(Studies are underway to clarify whether folate decreases the
risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer.)
A 2-ounce serving of dry pasta supplies the equivalent of about
100 micrograms of folic acid, or 25 percent of the recommended
daily intake. Barilla pasta has a higher level of folate per serving,
providing 30 percent of the recommended daily intake.
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