What’s Cooking Wednesday: La Fuji Mama’s Apple Brown Betty
Bread pudding and apple cobbler collide to make La Fuji Mama’s Apple Brown Betty. Packed with enriched bread cubes, she shares how you can have your folic acid, and eat it, too!
Bread pudding and apple cobbler collide to make La Fuji Mama’s Apple Brown Betty. Packed with enriched bread cubes, she shares how you can have your folic acid, and eat it, too!
In recognition of National Birth Defects Prevention Month, blogger Bree Hester shares one of her favorite folic acid-rich recipes.
We’re excited to host our first-ever Twitter Party tomorrow as part of our continued recognition of National Birth Defects Prevention Month. To help up spread the word, we’ve teamed up with @MomCentral to remind all women of child-bearing age about the important role folic acid plays in a healthful diet. Folic acid is critical for the prevention of neural tube birth defects and is found in enriched grains such as white bread, pasta and cereal.
A study published this month in the journal Nutrition Reviews confirms what the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) have been saying all along: Americans should choose half of their daily grain servings from whole grain sources, leaving the other half for enriched grains, an optimal combo for good health.
FACT: Of the four million women who give birth in the U.S. each year, some 3,000 babies are born with neural tube birth defects, affecting the brain and spinal cord. That means eight babies born in this country each day have spinal bifida or another neural tube defect.