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What Counts as a Serving?
Bread, Cereal, Rice, & Pasta
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1 slice bread
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1 tortilla
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½ cup cooked rice, pasta, or cereal
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1 ounce ready-to-eat cereal
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½ hamburger roll, bagel, or English muffin
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3-4 plain crackers (small)
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1 pancake (4-inch)
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½ croissant (large)
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½ doughnut or danish (medium)
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1/16 cake (average)
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2 cookies (medium)
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1/12 pie (2-crust, 8")
Vegetable Group
Fruit Group
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1 piece fruit or melon wedge
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3/4 cup fruit juice
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½ cup chopped, cooked, or canned fruit
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1/4 cup dried fruit
Milk, Yogurt, & Cheese Group
Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, & Nuts Group
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2 ½ to 3 ounces cooked lean beef, pork, lamb, veal, poultry or fish
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½ cup cooked beans or 1 egg or 2 tablespoons peanut butter or 1/3 cup nuts count as 1 ounce of meat
Lean Beef Choices
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Round Tip
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Top Round
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Eye of Round
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Top Loin
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Tenderloin
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Sirloin
Fats, Oils, & Sweets Use Sparingly
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Provided by the Education Department of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
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