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<br>Hungry Girl Today: 03.21.07 
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<br>ASK HUNGRY GIRL 
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<br>Dear HG, 
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<br>I know you are loving those new Fiber One bars, but some of the ingredients 
<br>in the bars seem weird to me. The Oats & Chocolate ones contain "shellac". 
<br>That sounds more like something you'd find at an auto body shop than in a 
<br>snack bar. Can you please tell me what's up? Are these bars healthy or not? 
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<br>Bar Baffled
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<br>Dear Baffled,  
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<br>Over the past month, I have received emails like yours dozens of times. 
<br>Here's the deal. I am NOT a dietitian, a nutritionist or a doctor, so I am not 
<br>going to weigh in on whether or not these bars are healthy. The bars are not 
<br>being marketed as "health" bars. The box does state a few things, however. 
<br>For starters, it has the "Best Life" seal on it, which means the bars are 
<br>approved by bestselling author, health expert and Oprah pal Bob Greene. 
<br>The bars are a good source of calcium and whole grain, and they contain a 
<br>huge amount of fiber (9g) and no trans fats. They also have just 140 - 150 
<br>calories each, are low in fat and taste fantastic. As for the "weird" 
<br>ingredients -- pretty much anything you pick up at your local market is going 
<br>to have some ingredients that you find questionable.  Even products found at 
<br>natural foods stores can contain ingredients (like certain animal byproducts) 
<br>that you might find odd.  As for the "shellac" -- here is the official word from 
<br>my General Mills contact. She says that "food-grade shellac is a common 
<br>ingredient in confectioner’s glaze used as a coating on the chocolate chips. It 
<br>keeps the chocolate chips from melting." After Googling it myself, I found 
<br>that shellac is also commonly used on apples (making them shinier) and it 
<br>has not been found to be dangerous or harmful in any way. One more thing --
<br> while this food-grade shellac is NOT the same thing as furniture coating (as 
<br>some of you implied), it is a resin secreted by a tiny, female beetle as a 
<br>means to hold her eggs to the bark of a tree. Oh, lighten up -- some bug 
<br>worked really hard for you. And it's not all that different than beeswax, a 
<br>pretty well accepted insect secretion used in the food & cosmetics worlds. 
<br>And, yes, I'm definitely still a fan of these fantastically yummy bars.  And we 
<br>have THREE boxes of 'em at the HG HQ right now!
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<br>Dear Hungry Girl, 
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<br>I usually save all of your emails but I am looking for some of your recipes 
<br>from a while back -- one for cabbage soup and another that calls for brownie 
<br>mix and pumpkin -- and I can't find them in my inbox. Help, HG! 
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<br>In Search Of Stuff
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<br>Dear In Search Of,
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<br>No worries -- every single past HG email is archived on our website. If you 
<br>check out hungry-girl.com you'll see there are five buttons on the homepage. 
<br>Each button has a name -- News, Chew The Right Thing, Ask Hungry Girl, 
<br>Weekly Weigh-In, and Girls Bite Out. Each of those areas corresponds to a 
<br>different day of the week. So if you click on "News" you can find every single 
<br>Monday news email that we have sent since we launched in the spring of 
<br>2004 -- and so on. There's also a handy search bar up top you can use to 
<br>search the site by keyword. I'll admit it's not the BEST or most effective 
<br>search tool on the planet, but if you play around with it you can usually find 
<br>what you're looking for. The key thing to remember here is this -- if you 
<br>delete an email by accident, or if you simply want to go back and see things 
<br>you missed or forgot about, just go to hungry-girl.com and poke around. It's 
<br>all there! BTW -- find the cabbage soup recipe here and those brownie 
<br>muffins made with pumpkin here. Have fun!
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<br>Chew on This:  
<br>Hey! It's the 21st and the first day of spring. It's also FREE ICED COFFEE 
<br>DAY at Dunkin' Donuts! If you have one nearby, go get one. If not, sorry! 
<br>(We're out of luck here in L.A.)
<br>https://www.dunkindonuts.com/
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