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Strawberries are a delicious and nutritious fruit. Spring is strawberry time in Louisiana, and it’s a wonderful idea to add strawberries to smoothies, fruit and vegetable salads, in jams and jellies, and raw sliced in cereal and over oatmeal. Strawberries are grown across the United States. Did you know that Louisiana has 83 strawberry growers who produce more than 380 acres of strawberries for a gross farm value of about $15.2 million? That’s Sweet!!
Use the food label to the right (Strawberry Nutrition Facts) to answer the questions below.
How much vitamin C does one serving of strawberries provide?
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Can you locate the grams of carbohydrate in one serving of strawberries?
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Is there protein found in strawberries?
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What is the amount of one serving?
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What’s a food label? It’s a rectangle found on a package of food which contains a variety of information about the nutritional value of the food item. Not all fresh food items have a food label, but most items in the grocery store in packaging have a label.The label has information on serving size, number of calories, grams of fat, included nutrients, and a list of ingredients. This information helps people who are trying to know how much fat, sodium, sugar, or other ingredients are in the food item.
Strawberries have 49 calories per serving size of 152 grams or 1/2 cup. 4 calories from fat.
| Amount per serving | Percentage daily value |
| Total Fat 0g | 1% |
| Saturated Fat 0g | 1% |
| Trans Fat | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 2mg | 0% |
| Total Carbohydrate 12 g | 4% |
| Dietary Fiber 3g | 12% |
| Sugars 7g | |
| Protein 1g | |
| Vitamin A | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 149% |
| Calcium | 2% |
| Iron | 3% |
Mash strawberries with a potato masher or food processor until slightly chunky, but not smashed, to make two cups of crushed berries.Mix the strawberries and the sugar in a large bowl.Let the mixture stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, stirring often.
Mix the water and pectin in 1-quart saucepan.Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.Boil and stir for 1 minute.Pour the hot pectin mixture over the strawberries, stir constantly for 3 minutes.
Immediately spoon the mixture into freezer containers, leaving ½ inch headspace.Wipe the container rims and top.Let stand at room temperature until cool.
Store the jam in the freezer for 12 months or in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Before you reach for your red crayon, consider this. Did you know that there are orange, yellow, purple, and white strawberries?
Print and color the strawberry located in the attached PDF which also contains all the information on this page.
Compiled and Presented by Esther Coco Boe, Central Region 4-H Coordinator, Louisiana 4-H.