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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EXPOLORING TEACHING AND LEARNING
ISETL 2013
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: COOKIES
CHIPS AHOY! CHEWY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES: America’s favorite chocolate chip cookie.
NUT RIT IO N FACT S
HISTORY
Serving Size: 2 cookies (29 g)
Chips Ahoy! is a brand of chocolate
Serving per container: about 5
chip cookies produced by Nabisco. The
name is a play on words from the term
Amount Per Serving
“Ships Ahoy!” First manufactured in 1963,
Calories 140
Calories from Fat 60
they are sold in the United States, Latin
% Daily Value*
America, South Africa, Canada, Spain,
Total Fat 6g
9%
Portugal, Australia, China, and Taiwan.
Saturated Fat 3g
15%
Chips Ahoy! is the second-best-selling
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
cookie in the United States after Oreo, with
Trans Fat 0g
$363,525,152 in sales in 2012. By the
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
1980s, several different varieties of the
Cholesterol 0mg
0%
cookie snack had made it to grocery stores
Sodium 95mg
4%
and there are now 41 different flavors
Potassium 30mg
1%
available.
Total Carbohydrate 21g
7%
The chocolate chip cookie was
accidentally developed by Ruth Graves
Dietary Fiber 1g
2%
Wakefield in 1930. She owned the Toll
Sugars 12g
House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a
Protein 1g
very popular restaurant featuring home
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
cooking. Accounts differ as to whether their
Calcium 0%
Iron 2%
creation was an effort to substitute for
INGREDIENTS: UNBLEACHED
missing cocoa powder or an accidental
ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR,
spilling of chocolate bars into the batter
NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE
while mixing. Regardless, the result was a
MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1},
success. In 1936, Ruth published her
RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC
cookbook, Toll House Tried and True
ACID), SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE
Recipes that included the recipe "Toll House
CHIPS (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, COCOA
Chocolate Crunch Cookie," which rapidly
BUTTER, DEXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN,
became an American favorite.
MILK), PALM OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE
A 5.12 oz (145 g) box was purchased for
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE,
$2.79.
CORNSTARCH, SALT, BAKING SODA,
MOLASSES, CARAMEL COLOR,
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.
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OREO SANDWICH COOKIES: Milk’s favorite cookie.
NUT RI T IO N FACT S
H IS T O RY
Serving Size: 3 cookies (34g)
The Oreo is a sandwich cookie
Serving per container: about 4.5
consisting of two chocolate wafers with a
sweet cream filling in between. Oreo has
Amount Per Serving
become the best selling cookie in the United
Calories 160
Calories from Fat 60
States with $557,443,008 in sales in 2012.
% Daily Value*
The "Oreo Biscuit" was first developed and
Total Fat 7g
11%
produced by the National Biscuit Company
Saturated Fat 2g
10%
(Nabisco) in 1912. They were developed as
Trans Fat 0g
an imitation of the Hydrox cookie
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
introduced in 1908. The modern Oreo
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
cookie filling was developed by Nabisco's
Cholesterol 0mg
0%
principal food scientist, Sam Porcello.
Sodium 160mg
7%
In 1921, the Oreo Biscuit was renamed
Potassium 60mg
2%
to "Oreo Sandwich." In 1948, the Oreo
Total Carbohydrate 25g
8%
Sandwich was renamed the Oreo Crème
Dietary Fiber 1g
3%
Sandwich; it was changed in 1974 to the
Sugars 14g
Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie.
Protein 1g
A lemon-filled variety was available
briefly during the 1920s, but was
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
discontinued. In the mid-1990s, the lard in
Calcium 2%
Iron 10%
the filling was replaced with partially
INGREDIENTS: SUGAR,
hydrogenated vegetable oil. In 2006, Oreo
UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR
cookies replaced the trans fat with non(WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED
hydrogenated vegetable oil. Double stuff,
IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE
reduced fat, and other flavors have been
{VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN
introduced to varying success. Nabisco
{VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), HIGH
frequently manufactures special edition
OLEIC CANOLA AND/OR PALM
versions (colored cream, etc.) to enhance
AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA
marketing and sales.
(PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH
A 5.2 oz (147 g) box was purchased for
FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP,
$2.79.
CORNSTARCH, LEAVENING (BAKING
SODA AND/OR CALCIUM
PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN,
VANILLIN – AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR,
CHOCOLATE.