POPCORN

[DumbledoresGirl]

Does it count as one of our five-a-day?

Really!!!???

I don't know. Does it?

what would it? It isn't fruit or veg!

Plain popcorn is a healthier alternative to crisps tho.

of course not

of course not

It is a corn seed isn't it? Doesn't that make it a sort of veg?

Lots of fibre in it....

it is a cereal.

corn is a grain... I think

Well, I never have quite understood exactly what it is in fruit and veg that we need five times a day. I thought it was its fibre content...

It's nto jsut fibre, it's the mixture of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients which aren't in cereals or pulses or whatever.

Not that I ever manage five a day!

But pulses count as one of your five-a-day! [Started confused and getting more and more so emoticon!]

yes but only for one item. see here

also for popcorn...
corn is dried to make the pop corn
then fried/ heated to very high temp in order to pop
this makes it refined to a point where its vitamin and mineral content have long deserted it.
However it is low cal and a good snack unless like me you slather it in butter and salt

if popcorn was btw, you could also consider rice krispies one of you 5 a day...

Oh well. I only asked because my children were pretending to be at the cinema, watching tv in the dark and eating a bowl of popcorn. I got the remnants and there were lots of chewing unpopped kernels amongst them. Just got me thinking.

chewy, not chewing